Power and performance optimization at the system level

2005 Computing Frontiers Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 125-132

  Salapura, Valentina ^a   Bickford, Randy ^a   Blumrich, Matthias ^a   Bright, Arthur A ^a   Chen, Dong ^a   Coteus, Paul ^a   Gara, Alan ^a   Giampapa, Mark ^a   Gschwind, Michael ^a   Gupta, Manish ^a   Hall, Shawn ^a   Haring, Ruud A ^a   Heidelberger, Philip ^a   Hoenicke, Dirk ^a   Kopcsay, Gerard V ^a   Ohmacht, Martin ^a   Rand, Rick A ^a   Takken, Todd ^a   Vranas, Pavlos ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Application performance analysis; Application scaling in multiprocessor systems; BlueGene L; Chip multiprocessors; Power performance efficient systems; Power performance tradeoffs in systems; Supercomputers

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; APPLICATION SCALING IN MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS; BLUEGENE/L; CHIP MULTIPROCESSORS; POWER/PERFORMANCE EFFICIENT SYSTEMS; POWER/PERFORMANCE TRADEOFFS IN SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA REDUCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIPROCESSING PROGRAMS; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 33644649673     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1062261.1062262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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