Performance portability on EARTH: A case study across several parallel architectures

Proceedings - 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Zhu, Weirong ^a   Niu, Yanwei ^a   Gao, Guang R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE MODEL; PARALLEL APPLICATIONS; PARALLEL EXECUTION MODELS; PERFORMANCE PORTABILITY;

BINARY CODES; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746289010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2005.341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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