Optimization approaches to MPI and area merging-based parallel buffer algorithm;Estratégias de otimização de algoritmos de armazenamento paralelo baseados em fusão de área e MPI

Boletim de Ciencias Geodesicas

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 237-256

  Fan, Junfu ^a,b,c   Ji, Min ^d   Gu, Guomin ^e   Sun, Yong ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Area merging; MPI; Parallel buffer; Task partition; Tree like merging; Vertex accumulation effect

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84902103214     PISSN: 14134853     EISSN: 19822170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1982-21702014000200015     Document Type: Article

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