WARPP - A toolkit for simulating high-performance parallel scientific codes

SIMUTools 2009 - 2nd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hammond, S D ^a   Mudalige, G R ^a   Smith, J A ^a   Jarvis, S A ^a   Herdman, J A ^b   Vadgama, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b AWE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Application performance modelling; High Performance Computing; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPLEX NETWORKS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SIMULATORS;

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC); PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; POTENTIAL CAPABILITY; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SIMULATION; TRADITIONAL COMPUTERS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84922896495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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