Performance modeling and analysis of a massively parallel direct - Part 1

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-28

  He, Jian ^a   Verstak, Alex ^a   Watson, L T ^a   Sosonkina, M ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DIRECT; Global search algorithms; Load balancing; Parallel optimization; Performance modeling; Scalability analysis

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROBOT LEARNING; SCALABILITY;

DIRECT; GLOBAL SEARCH ALGORITHMS; LOAD BALANCING; PARALLEL OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE MODELING; SCALABILITY ANALYSIS;

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

EID: 62249223544     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: 17412846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342008098462     Document Type: Article

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