Performance measurement and analysis of large-scale parallel applications on leadership computing systems

Scientific Programming

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 167-181

  Wylie, Brian J N ^a   Geimer, Markus ^a   Wolf, Felix ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Large scale parallel applications and systems; Performance measurement and analysis

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

APPLICATION SCALABILITY; COMPUTING RESOURCE; COMPUTING SYSTEM; HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS; LARGE-SCALE COMPUTING; LARGE-SCALE PARALLEL APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS; LARGE-SCALES; MESSAGE-PASSING; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 48849092945     PISSN: 10589244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/632685     Document Type: Article

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