Challenges and issues in benchmarking MPI

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4192 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 339-346

  Underwood, Keith D ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

ISOLATION; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE (MPI); MICROBENCHMARKS; SOFTWARE OPTIMIZATIONS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 33750241917     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11846802_47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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