The case of the missing supercomputer performance: Achieving optimal performance on the 8,192 processors of ASCI Q

Proceedings of the 2003 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing, SC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Petrini, Fabrizio ^a   Kerbyson, Darren J ^a   Pakin, Scott ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE; LARGE-SCALE SUPERCOMPUTERS; MICRO-BENCHMARKS; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 84877019178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1048935.1050204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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