Efficient RDMA-based multi-port collectives on multi-rail QsNet II clusters

20th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 8-15

  Qian, Ying ^a   Afsahi, Ahmad ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS;

COLLECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; MULTI-PORT COLLECTIVES; PERFORMANCE INTERCONNECT; SCATTER OPERATION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33847138695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2006.1639563     Document Type: Conference Paper

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