A methodology for developing high fidelity communication models for large-scale applications targeted on multicore systems

Proceedings - Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 55-62

  Lively, Charles W ^a   Taylor, Valerie E ^a   Alam, Sadaf R ^b   Vetter, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTERS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFORMATION THEORY; MESSAGE PASSING; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

AND MODELING; APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; COMMUNICATION MODELS; CORE SYSTEMS; FUSION APPLICATIONS; HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITIONS; HIGH FIDELITIES; MODELING METHODOLOGIES; MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; MULTICORE PROCESSORS; OPTIMAL MAPPINGS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; PROCESSING ELEMENTS; PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS; SCALING CHALLENGES; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE STACKS; TARGET SYSTEMS; UNDERLYING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 58049165089     PISSN: 15506533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SBAC-PAD.2008.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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