Towards a framework for abstracting accelerators in parallel applications: Experience with cell

Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kunzman, David M ^a   Kalé, Laxmikant V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION CODES; CELL PROCESSOR; CELL-BASED; MULTIPLE PLATFORMS; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PERFORMANCE DATA; PROCESSING ELEMENTS; SINGLE CELLS; STREAMING SIMD EXTENSIONS;

LIBRARIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 74049123823     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1654059.1654114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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