Test suite for evaluating performance of multithreaded MPI communication

Parallel Computing

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 608-617

  Thakur, Rajeev ^a   Gropp, William ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarks; Message passing interface (MPI); Multithreading; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMERS; HYBRID PROGRAMMING MODEL; LINUX CLUSTERS; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MULTI-THREADING; MULTICORE CHIPS; MULTIPLE LEVELS; MULTITHREADED; PARALLEL SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PERFORMANCE TESTS; TYPICAL APPLICATION; USER PROGRAMS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MESSAGE PASSING; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 71549163177     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2008.12.013     Document Type: Article

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