Performance analysis of a hybrid MPI/OpenMP application on multi-core clusters

Journal of Computational Science

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 168-174

  Chorley, Martin J ^a   Walker, David W ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hybrid programming; Message passing; Multi core; Shared memory

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION TIME; HYBRID MODEL; HYBRID PROGRAMMING; LARGE-SCALE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTI CORE; MULTI-CORE CLUSTER; MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; PROGRAMMING MODELS; RUNTIMES; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SHARED MEMORIES;

MESSAGE PASSING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77956405262     PISSN: 18777503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocs.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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