Understanding the causes of performance variability in HPC workloads

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, IISWC-2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 137-149

  Skinner, David ^a   Kramer, William ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HPC ARCHITECTURE; HPC WORKLOAD; MULTI-USER PRODUCTION; PERFORMANCE VARIABILITY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MANAGERS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 33749059778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IISWC.2005.1526010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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