MPI microtask for programming the Cell Broadband Engine™ processor

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-102

  Ohara, Moriyoshi ^a   Inoue, Hiroshi ^a   Sohda, Yukihiko ^a   Komatsu, Hideaki ^a   Nakatani, Toshio ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

CELL BROADBAND ENGINE; DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS (DMA); MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE (MPI); PROGRAMMING MODEL; SYNERGISTIC PROCESSING ELEMENTS (SPES);

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646596525     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: 00188670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.451.0085     Document Type: Article

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