On the programming impact of multi-core, multi-processor nodes in MPI clusters

Proceedings - International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pourreza, Hossein ^a   Graham, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compute clusters; Message passing; MPI; Multi core; Multi processor; Process placement; Processor affinity

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MESSAGE PASSING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; USER INTERFACES;

MPI CLUSTERS; MULTI-CORE; PROCESS PLACEMENT; PROCESSOR AFFINITY;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548247167     PISSN: 15505243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCS.2007.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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