Investigating high performance RMA interfaces for the MPI-3 standard

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 293-300

  Tipparaju, Vinod ^a   Gropp, William ^b   Ritzdorf, Hubert ^c   Thakur, Rajeev ^d   Träff, Jesper L ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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

^c NEC Europe Ltd   (Germany)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SYSTEM; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIPLE PLATFORMS; NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY; REMOTE MEMORY ACCESS; RMA INTERFACES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 77951480525     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2009.54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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