Performance characteristics of an adaptive mesh refinement calculation on scalar and vector platforms

Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computing Frontiers 2006, CF '06

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 393-402

  Welcome, Michael ^a   Rendleman, Charles ^a   Oliker, Leonid ^a   Biswas, Rupak ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cray X1E; High end computing; HyperCLaw framework; IBM Power3 and power4; Integrated performance monitoring; SGI Altix

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT (AMR); ADAPTIVE METHODS; HIGH END COMPUTING; INTEGRATED PERFORMANCE MONITORING; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

VECTORS;

EID: 34247390576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1128022.1128074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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