MPI performance analysis tools on Blue Gene/L

Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing, SC'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chung, I Hsin ^a   Walkup, Robert E ^a   Wen, Hui Fang ^a   Yu, Hao ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Performance tool; Performance tuning

Indexed keywords

BLUE GENE/L; MPI PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS TOOLS; PERFORMANCE TOOLS; PERFORMANCE TUNING;

DATA PROCESSING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MESSAGE PASSING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCALABILITY; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548290422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1188455.1188583     Document Type: Conference Paper

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