HPC interconnection networks: The key to exascale computing

Advances in Parallel Computing

Volumn 18, Issue , 2009, Pages 95-106

  Vetter, Jeffrey S ^a   Tipparaju, Vinod ^a   Yu, Weikuan ^a   Roth, Philip C ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exascale; high performance computing; interconnection networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906572493     PISSN: 09275452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-073-5-95     Document Type: Conference Paper

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