A performance evaluation of an alpha EV7 processing node

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 199-209

  Kerbyson, Darren J ^a   Hoisie, Adolfy ^a   Pakin, Scott ^a   Petrini, Fabrizio ^a   Wasserman, Harvey J ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis; Application performance; Communication performance; High performance computing; Memory performance; Performance

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA TRANSFER; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PERFORMANCE; ROUTERS;

ALPHA SERVER NODE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 2942538627     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342004039808     Document Type: Article

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