Cray cascade: A scalable HPC system based on a dragonfly network

International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Faanes, Greg ^a   Bataineh, Abdulla ^a,b   Roweth, Duncan ^a   Court, Tom ^a   Froese, Edwin ^a   Alverson, Bob ^a   Johnson, Tim ^a   Kopnick, Joe ^a   Higgins, Mike ^a   Reinhard, James ^a  

^a CRAY INC   (United States)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Interconnect technologies; parallel and scalable system architectures; performance evaluation and measurement of real systems

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY SYSTEMS; GLOBAL ADDRESS SPACES; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY; REAL SYSTEMS; SCALABLE SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84877718746     PISSN: 21674329     EISSN: 21674337     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2012.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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