Scientific application performance on candidate PetaScale platforms

Proceedings - 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2007; Abstracts and CD-ROM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Oliker, Leonid ^a   Canning, Andrew ^a   Carter, Jonathan ^a   Iancu, Costin ^a   Lijewski, Michael ^a   Kamil, Shoaib ^a   Shalf, John ^a   Shan, Hongzhang ^a   Strohmaier, Erich ^a   Ethier, Stéphane ^b   Goodale, Tom ^c,d  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

HIGH END COMPUTING (HEC); PETASCALE COMPUTING; ULTRA SCALE SYSTEMS;

NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 34548793418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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