Performance characteristics of hardware transactional memory for molecular dynamics application on BlueGene/Q: Toward efficient multithreading strategies for large-scale scientific applications

Proceedings - IEEE 27th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops and PhD Forum, IPDPSW 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1326-1335

  Kunaseth, Manaschai ^a   Kalia, Rajiv K ^a   Nakano, Aiichiro ^a   Vashishta, Priya ^a   Richards, David F ^b   Glosli, James N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

BlueGene Q; Hardware transactional memory; molecular dynamics; multithreading

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; DECISION TREES; HARDWARE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTITASKING; SCALABILITY; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

BLUEGENE/Q; HARDWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY; MULTI-THREADING; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS;

CONCURRENCY CONTROL;

EID: 84899758604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2013.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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