Modeling and predicting application performance on parallel computers using HPC challenge benchmarks

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pfeiffer, Wayne ^a   Wright, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CURVE FITTING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SPEED; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; MICRO-KERNELS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 51049110961     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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