On the effects of memory latency and bandwidth on supercomputer application performance

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, IISWC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 35-43

  Murphy, Richard ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTERS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VECTORS;

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; BASE-LINE PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL WORK; CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; FLOATING POINT (FP); INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; MEMORY LATENCIES; MEMORY PERFORMANCE; MEMORY SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL CODES; VECTOR SUPERCOMPUTERS; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

CODES (STANDARDS);

EID: 47349098288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IISWC.2007.4362179     Document Type: Conference Paper

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