An experimental evaluation of the parallel I/O systems of the IBM SP and Intel Paragon using a production application

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1127, Issue , 1996, Pages 24-35

  Thakur, Rajeev ^a   Gropp, William ^a   Lusk, Ewing ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILE ORGANIZATION;

DIFFERENT SIZES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; LIBRARY ROUTINES; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PARALLEL FILE SYSTEM; PARALLEL I/O SYSTEMS; UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84949191768     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-61695-0_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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