Data transfers between processes in an SMP system: Performance study and application to MPI

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 487-494

  Buntinas, Darius ^a   Mercier, Guillaume ^a   Gropp, William ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-SPEED NETWORK; KERNEL MODULE-BASED COPY;

BANDWIDTH; BUFFER STORAGE; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA TRANSFER; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547473014     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2006.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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