Processor affinity and MPI performance on SMP-CMP clusters

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Workshops and Phd Forum, IPDPSW 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Chi ^a   Yuan, Xin ^a   Srinivasan, Ashok ^a  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

Author keywords

MPI; Processor affinity; SMP CMP clusters

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIVE BENCHMARKING; HIERARCHICAL COMMUNICATIONS; INTER-NODE COMMUNICATION; INTRA-NODE COMMUNICATION; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MPI APPLICATIONS; MULTICORE CHIPS; PROCESSOR AFFINITY; SYMMETRIC MULTI PROCESSING;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MESSAGE PASSING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 77954065462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2010.5470774     Document Type: Conference Paper

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