Merrimac: Supercomputing with streams

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Dally, William J ^a   Labonté, François ^a   Das, Abhishek ^a   Hanrahan, Patrick ^a   Ahn, Jung Ho ^a   Gummaraju, Jayanth ^a   Erez, Mattan ^a   Jayasena, Nuwan ^a   Buck, Ian ^a   Knight, Timothy J ^a   Kapasi, Ujval J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC UNIT; CLUSTER-BASED; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; PER UNIT; PROCESSING NODES; STREAM ARCHITECTURE; SYSTEM MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 84877083867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1048935.1050187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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