Performance analysis of Intel multiprocessors using astrophysics simulations

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 155-166

  Simon, Tyler A ^a   Ward, William A ^b   Boss, Alan P ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

FLASH; multicore; performance analysis

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; COMPUTER PERFORMANCE; FLASH; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING RESOURCES; MULTI-CORES; PERFORMANCES ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCES EVALUATION; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; WASHINGTON;

NASA;

EID: 84856104705     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1888     Document Type: Article

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