Comprehensive performance monitoring for GPU cluster systems

IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and Phd Forum

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1377-1386

  Fürlinger, Karl ^a   Wright, Nicholas J ^b   Skinner, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficient scalable monitoring; GPGPU computing; GPU clusters; NVIDIA CUDA; Performance monitoring and analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE; GPGPU COMPUTING; GPU CLUSTERS; MONITORING ACCURACY; NVIDIA CUDA; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING MODEL; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND ANALYSIS; PROFILING TOOLS; RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

CLUSTER COMPUTING;

EID: 83455220920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2011.289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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