Instruction-level simulation of a cluster at scale

Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  León, Edgar A ^a   Riesen, Rolf ^b   Maccabe, Arthur B ^c   Bridges, Patrick G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH; CYCLE ACCURATE; INSTRUCTION-LEVEL; NETWORK MODELS; NETWORK TRAFFIC; NODE PARAMETER; PARALLEL APPLICATION; POWERPC;

MESSAGE PASSING; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 84868072608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1654059.1654063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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