The role of MPI in development time: A case study

2008 SC - International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hochstein, Lorin ^a   Shull, Forrest ^b   Reid, Lynn B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Fraunhofer Center Maryland   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Debugging; Effort; MPI; Productivity

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENTISTS; DEBUGGING; DEVELOPMENT TIME; EFFORT; MAXIMUM PRODUCTIVITY; MPI; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING MODEL; PARALLEL SOFTWARE; PROGRAMMING MODELS; REGRESSION TESTING; SOURCE CODES; UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO; VERSION CONTROL;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PRODUCTIVITY;

RESEARCH;

EID: 70350755754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2008.5213771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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