Preserving time in large-scale communication traces

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 46-55

  Ratn, Prasun ^a   Mueller, Frank ^a   De Supinski, Bronis R ^b   Schulz, Martin ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

High Performance Computing; Message Passing; Tracing

Indexed keywords

DISK SPACES; ENCODING SCHEMES; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LOSSLESS; NUMBER OF NODES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; PERFORMANCE DATUMS; SCALABLE COMMUNICATIONS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SHEER SIZES; TIME STAMPS; TIME STEPS; TIMING INFORMATIONS; TRACING;

COMPUTERS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MESSAGE PASSING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 57349170105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1375527.1375537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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