Metrics for heterogeneous scientific workflows: A case study of an earthquake science application

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 274-285

  Callaghan, Scott ^a   Maechling, Philip ^a   Small, Patrick ^a   Milner, Kevin ^a   Juve, Gideon ^a   Jordan, Thomas H ^a   Deelman, Ewa ^b   Mehta, Gaurang ^b   Vahi, Karan ^b   Gunter, Dan ^c   Beattie, Keith ^c   Brooks, Christopher ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

large scale simulations; performance metrics; scientific workflows

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION LEVEL; APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; BREAK DOWN; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; FILE ACCESS; FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT COMPUTING; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SCIENCE APPLICATIONS; SCIENTIFIC SIMULATIONS; SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOWS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TASK-SCHEDULING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 80051512575     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: 17412846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342011414743     Document Type: Conference Paper

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