An adaptive synchronization technique for parallel simulation of networked clusters

ISPASS 2008 - IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 22-31

  Falcón, Ayose ^a   Faraboschi, Paolo ^a   Ortega, Daniel ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION FACTOR; ADAPTIVE SYNCHRONIZATIONS; ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER CLUSTERING; COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; GROUND TRUTH; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; NETWORKED CLUSTERS; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; PARALLEL DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; PARALLEL MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS; PARALLEL SIMULATIONS; PARALLEL SIMULATORS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSES; SIMULATION SPEED; SYSTEMS-AND-SOFTWARE;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; FINANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SYNCHRONIZATION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 52249095095     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPASS.2008.4510735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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