Performance implications of architectural and software techniques on I/O-intensive applications

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 493-500

  Kandaswamy, Meenakshi A ^a   Kandemir, Mahmut ^a   Choudhary, Alok ^b   Bernholdt, David E ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MESSAGE PASSING;

DISTRIBUTED MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; LAYOUT OPTIMIZATION; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; SOFTWARE OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE SOLUTION; SOFTWARE TECHNIQUES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 63049095589     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.1998.708522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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