Early experiences in application level I/O tracing on blue gene systems

IPDPS Miami 2008 - Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Program and CD-ROM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Seelam, Seetharami ^a   Chung, I Hsin ^a   Hong, Ding Yong ^b   Wen, Hui Fang ^a   Yu, Hao ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

APPLICATION LEVEL; BLUE GENE; I/O PERFORMANCE;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 51049105059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536550     Document Type: Conference Paper

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