Comparison of message aggregation strategies for parallel simulations on a high performance cluster

Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 358-365

  Pham, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; HIGH PERFORMANCE CLUSTER; HIGH SPEED COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; MESSAGE AGGREGATION; PARALLEL SIMULATIONS; RECEIVER INITIATED STRATEGY; RECEIVER-INITIATED; TEST BED ENVIRONMENT;

COMPUTERS;

EID: 84949784068     PISSN: 15267539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MASCOT.2000.876559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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