Scaling communication-intensive applications on bluegene/P using one-sided communication and overlap

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Nishtala, Rajesh ^a   Hargrove, Paul H ^b   Bonachea, Dan O ^a   Yelick, Katherine A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION EFFICIENCY; COMMUNICATION LAYERS; COMMUNICATION MODELS; CORE PROCESSORS; LOW POWER; MICROBENCHMARKS; MULTI CORE; ON-MACHINES; PGAS MODEL; PROCESSOR SYNCHRONIZATION; UPC COMPILERS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA TRANSFER; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SCALABILITY;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70449905663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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