Performance analysis and projections for petascale applications on cray XT series systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Alam, Sadaf R ^a   Barrett, Richard F ^a   Kuehn, Jeffery A ^a   Poole, Steve W ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

High performance computing; Multi core processors; Performance evaluation; Scientific applications

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING FACILITIES; CORE PROCESSORS; DUAL-CORE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MULTI-CORE AWARE; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORIES; PARALLEL PLATFORMS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PETASCALE; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SERIES SYSTEM; SOFTWARE FEATURES; SYSTEM ACCESS; SYSTEM FEATURES; TARGET APPLICATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 70450055952     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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