Performance modeling and comparative analysis of the MILC lattice QCD application su3-rmd

Proceedings - 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 652-659

  Bauer, Greg ^a   Gottlieb, Steven ^b   Hoefler, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MILC; performance analysis; semi analytical modeling

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PERFORMANCE; APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CURVE FITTING METHODS; FITTING TECHNIQUES; INPUT SYSTEMS; LATTICE QCD; MILC; NATURAL VARIATION; NOISE EFFECTS; PARALLEL COMPUTING PLATFORM; PARALLEL SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE MODEL; PERFORMANCE MODELING; PETASCALE; QUANTUM CHROMO DYNAMICS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SERIAL CODES; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; TARGET ARCHITECTURES;

CURVE FITTING; GRID COMPUTING; QUANTUM THEORY;

ANALYTICAL MODELS;

EID: 84863638735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCGrid.2012.123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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