Verifying causality between distant performance phenomena in large-scale MPI applications

Proceedings of the 17th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 78-84

  Hermanns, Marc Andre ^a   Geimer, Markus ^a   Wolf, Felix ^b   Wylie, Brian J N ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX MODEL; MPI APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE DATA; PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS; PLATFORM INDEPENDENT; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; SPATIAL DISTANCE;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 70349140565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PDP.2009.50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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