The scalasca performance toolset architecture

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 702-719

  Geimer, Markus ^a   Wolf, Felix ^a,b,c   Wylie, Brian J N ^a   Ábrahám, Erika ^c   Becker, Daniel ^a,c   Mohr, Bernd ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b German Research School for Simulation Sciences   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Parallel computing; Performance analysis; Scalability

Indexed keywords

METADATA; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCALABILITY;

APPLICATION EXECUTION; CONCURRENT BEHAVIOR; LOCAL MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; RAW MEASUREMENTS; SCALABLE DESIGN;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950622295     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1556     Document Type: Article

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