PARSE: A tool for parallel application run time sensitivity evaluation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 475-484

  Evans, Jeffrey J ^a   Hood, Cynthia S ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION CODE FRAGMENTS; PARALLEL APPLICATION RUN TIME SENSITIVITY EVALUATION (PARSE); RUN TIME VARIABILITY;

BENCHMARKING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34047220953     PISSN: 15219097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPADS.2006.78     Document Type: Conference Paper

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