Modelling the runtime of scientific programs on parallel computers

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 307-314

  Rauber, Thomas ^a   Rünger, Gudula ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cray T3D; Cray T3E; MPI; Numerical analysis; Performance modelling; PVM; Scientific computing

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LIBRARIES; LINEAR EQUATIONS; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

CRAY T3D; CRAY T3E; MPI; PERFORMANCE MODELLING; PVM;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 36048937397     PISSN: 15302016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPPW.2000.869117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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