Configuring large high-performance clusters at lightspeed: A case study

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 317-326

  Papadopoulos, Philip M ^a   Papadopoulos, Caroline A ^b   Katz, Mason J ^a   Link, William J ^a   Bruno, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Administration; Cluster; HPC; LINPACK; Linux; TOP500

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ETHERNET; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LINPACK; METACLUSTER; MYRINET NETWORKS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 4344622786     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342004046056     Document Type: Article

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