Memory and thread placement effects as a function of cache usage: A study of the Gaussian chemistry code on the SunFire X4600 M2

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks, I-SPAN

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 31-36

  Yang, R ^a   Antony, J ^a   Janes, P P ^a   Rendell, A P ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); DECODING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TRELLIS CODES;

CACHE BLOCKING; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; GAUSSIAN; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; MULTI CORES; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SHARED-MEMORY PARALLEL;

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

EID: 49149108553     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/I-SPAN.2008.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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