An application-based performance characterization of the Columbia supercluster

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 2005 Supercomputing Conference, SC'05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 26-

  Biswas, Rupak ^a   Djomehri, M Jahed ^a   Hood, Robert ^a   Jin, Haoqiang ^a   Kiris, Cetin ^a   Saini, Subhash ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; HPC challenge benchmarks; Molecular dynamics; Multi block overset grids; Multi level parallelism; NAS parallel benchmarks; SGI altix

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMMUNICATION FABRICS; COMMUNICATION SPEEDS; COMPUTING NODES; MEMORY BANDWIDTH;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 33845385249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2005.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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