A portable method for finding user errors in the usage of MPI collective operations

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-165

  Falzone, Christopher ^a   Chan, Anthony ^b   Lusk, Ewing ^c   Gropp, William ^c  

^a EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective; Datatype; Errors; Hashing; MPI

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; ERROR DETECTION; MULTIUSER DETECTION; OPEN SYSTEMS;

DATATYPE INCONSISTENCIES; OPEN-SOURCE LIBRARY; PROFILING LIBRARY;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 34247633503     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: 17412846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342007077860     Document Type: Article

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