Performance projection of HPC applications using SPEC CFP2006 benchmarks

IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sharkawi, Sameh ^a,b   DeSota, Don ^a   Panda, Raj ^a   Indukuru, Rajeev ^a   Stevens, Stephen ^a   Taylor, Valerie ^b   Wu, Xingfu ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; HARDWARE PERFORMANCE COUNTERS; HARDWARE PLATFORM; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INDUSTRY-STANDARD BENCHMARKS; INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE; MICRO ARCHITECTURES; PROJECT PERFORMANCE; RUNTIMES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 70449844307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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