A performance prediction framework for scientific applications

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 336-346

  Carrington, Laura ^a   Snavely, Allan ^a,b   Wolter, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Grid Benchmarking Research Group in the Global Grid Forum

Author keywords

HPC; Performance modeling; Performance prediction

Indexed keywords

HPC; PERFORMANCE MODELING; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; RUNTIME ARCHITECTURE;

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; PERFORMANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 28044454088     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2004.11.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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