Characterization of the communication patterns of scientific applications on blue gene/P

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1017-1024

  Raponi, Pier Giorgio ^a,b   Petrini, Fabrizio ^b   Walkup, Robert ^b   Checconi, Fabio ^b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Application characterization; BlueGene; High performance networking; MPI; Supercomputing

Indexed keywords

BLUEGENE; COMMUNICATION PATTERN; HIGH-PERFORMANCE NETWORKING; MPI; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SUPERCOMPUTING; TIME SPENT;

COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MESSAGE PASSING;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 83455229419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2011.249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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