Parallel performance wizard: A performance system for the analysis of partitioned global-address-space applications

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 485-510

  Su, Hung Hsun ^a   Billingsley, Max ^a   George, Alan D ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

GASP; generic operation type abstraction; Performance analysis tool; PGAS; SHMEM; UPC

Indexed keywords

GASP; GENERIC-OPERATION-TYPE ABSTRACTION; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PGAS; SHMEM; UPC;

DATA VISUALIZATION; MESSAGE PASSING; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SECURITY OF DATA; SPACE APPLICATIONS; VISUALIZATION;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 78649524084     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: 17412846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342010370953     Document Type: Article

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