Large-scale performance analysis of sweep3D with the scalasca toolset

Parallel Processing Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 397-414

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

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c German Research School for Simulation Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

parallel performance measurement analysis; scalability

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; ANALYSIS TOOLS; BLUE GENE; COMMUNICATION TIME; EXECUTION PERFORMANCE; GRAPHICAL PRESENTATIONS; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; MPI PROCESS; OVERALL EXECUTION; PARALLEL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ISSUES; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PROCESSOR CORES; RUNTIMES; TOOLSETS; WAITING TIME;

SCALABILITY; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

TRACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650897869     PISSN: 01296264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129626410000314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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