Performance evaluation of unified parallel C collective communications

2009 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 69-78

  Taboada, Guillermo L ^a   Teijeiro, Carlos ^a   Touriño, Juan ^a   Fraguela, Basilio B ^a   Doallo, Ramón ^a   Mouriño, José Carlos ^b   Mallón, Damián A ^b   Gómez, Andrés ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b Centro de Supercomputacion de Galicia   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RUNTIMES; UNIFIED PARALLEL C;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 70449578265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCC.2009.88     Document Type: Conference Paper

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