Benchmarking the effects of operating system interference on extreme-scale parallel machines

Cluster Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-16

  Beckman, Pete ^a   Iskra, Kamil ^a   Yoshii, Kazutomo ^a   Coghlan, Susan ^a   Nataraj, Aroon ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Microbenchmark; Noise; Petascale; Synchronicity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; BENCHMARKING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

EXTREME-SCALE PARALLEL MACHINES; MICROBENCHMARK;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 40449141073     PISSN: 13867857     EISSN: 15737543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10586-007-0047-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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