Realistic evaluation of interconnection network performance at high loads

Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 97-104

  Ridruejo, F J ^a   Navaridas, J ^a   Miguel Alonso, J ^a   Izu, Cruz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

AVERAGE LATENCIES; DEPENDENCY CHAINS; EVALUATION OF INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; HIGH LOADS; INJECTION MECHANISMS; PARALLEL APPLICATIONS; PARALLEL BENCHMARKS; SYNTHETIC TRAFFIC PATTERNS; SYNTHETIC WORKLOADS; TRAFFIC MODELS; TRAFFIC SOURCES;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 48049093660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PDCAT.2007.4420147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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