Designing an efficient kernel-level and user-level hybrid approach for MPI intra-node communication on multi-core systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 222-229

  Chai, Lei ^a   Lai, Ping ^a   Jin, Hyun Wook ^b   Panda, Dhabaleswar K ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; TOPOLOGY;

CACHE UTILIZATIONS; COLLECTIVE OPERATIONS; COMMUNICATION BUFFERS; COMMUNICATION SCHEMES; CORE CLUSTERS; CORE PROCESSORS; CRITICAL COMPONENTS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HYBRID APPROACHES; MICROBENCHMARKS; MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; SHARED MEMORIES; SKEW EFFECTS;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 55849129274     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2008.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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