PSINS: An open source event tracer and execution simulator

Department of Defense Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program - Users Group Conference, HPCMP-UGC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 444-449

  Tikir, Mustafa M ^a   Laurenzano, Michael A ^a   Carrington, Laura ^a   Snavely, Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PERFORMANCE; EFFICIENT SIMULATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING MODERNIZATION PROGRAMS; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MPI APPLICATIONS; NETWORK SIMULATORS; OPEN SOURCES; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PERFORMANCE MODELING; PERFORMANCE MODELING AND PREDICTION; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; SCALE-UP; TECHNOLOGY INSERTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MESSAGE PASSING; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

MODERNIZATION;

EID: 79951748883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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