Exploiting workload parallelism for performance and power optimization in Blue Gene

IEEE Micro

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 67-81

  Salapura, Valentina ^a   Walkup, Robert ^a   Gara, Alan ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT; SYSTEM POWER; WORKLOAD PARALLELISM;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750392190     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2006.89     Document Type: Article

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