Integrating database technology with comparison-based parallel performance diagnosis: The PerfTrack performance experiment management tool

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

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Karavanic, Karen L ^a   May, John ^b   Mohror, Kathryn ^a   Miller, Brian ^b   Huck, Kevin ^c   Knapp, Rashawn ^a   Pugh, Brian ^a  

^a Portland State University   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARADYN PARALLEL PERFORMANCE TOOL; PARAMETER STUDY; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POSTGRESQL;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845440784     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2005.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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