Performance evaluation of the concurrent execution of NAS parallel benchmarks with BYTE sequential benchmarks on a cluster

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 313-319

  Goscinski, Andrzej M ^a   Wong, Adam K L ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SEQUENTIAL APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 23944476136     PISSN: 15219097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPADS.2005.230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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