PSINS: An open source event tracer and execution simulator for MPI applications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5704 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 135-148

  Tikir, Mustafa M ^a   Laurenzano, Michael A ^a   Carrington, Laura ^a   Snavely, Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

High performance computing; Message passing applications; Performance prediction; Supercomputers; Trace driven simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PERFORMANCE; COMMUNICATION MODELS; EFFICIENT SIMULATION; FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MPI APPLICATIONS; NETWORK SIMULATORS; OPEN SOURCES; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PERFORMANCE MODELING AND PREDICTION; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PLUG-INS; SCALE-UP; TRACE-DRIVEN SIMULATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTS COMPUTING; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION THEORY; SIMULATORS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 70350660672     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03869-3_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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