Measuring causal propagation of overhead of inefficiencies in parallel applications

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 237-243

  Jafri, Hassan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Parallel computing; Performance analysis; Root cause analysis

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION OPERATIONS; CURRENT ANALYSIS; CURRENT TECHNIQUES; PARALLEL APPLICATIONS; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; PERFORMANCE DEBUGGING; ROOT-CAUSE ANALYSIS;

APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 62449277491     PISSN: 10272658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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