Performance analysis of Sweep3D on Blue Gene/P with the Scalasca toolset

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wylie, Brian J N ^a   Böhme, David ^a,b   Mohr, Bernd ^a   Szebenyi, Zoltán ^a,b   Wolf, Felix ^a,b,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c German Research School for Simulation Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

MPI; Parallel performance measurement analysis; Scalability of applications tools

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION TIME; EXECUTION PERFORMANCE; GRAPHICAL PRESENTATIONS; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; MPI; MPI PROCESS; OVERALL EXECUTION; PARALLEL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; RUNTIMES; TOOLSETS; WAITING TIME;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; SCALABILITY;

TRACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954082038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2010.5470816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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