Benchmarking parallel compilers: A UPC case study

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 764-775

  El Ghazawi, Tarek A ^a   Cantonnet, François ^a   Yao, Yiyi ^a   Annareddy, Smita ^a   Mohamed, Ahmed S ^a  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmark; Compilers; Distributed shared memory; NAS parallel benchmark; Non Uniform Memory Accesses Architecture; Unified Parallel C

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

IDENTIFICATION; NAS PARALLEL BENCHMARK; NON-UNIFORM MEMORY ACCESSES ARCHITECTURE; PARTITIONED GLOBAL ADDRESS SPACE (PGAS); UNIFIED PARALLEL C (UPC);

PROGRAM COMPILERS;

EID: 33646380590     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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