Accurate performance evaluation, modelling and prediction of a message passing simulation code based on middleware

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn 1998-November, Issue , 1998, Pages

  Taufer, Michela ^a   Stricker, Thomas ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Application design methods; Computer architecture; Molecular dynamics; Parallelization tools and middleware; Performance monitoring; PVM; Scientific application codes

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; EFFICIENCY; MESSAGE PASSING; MIDDLEWARE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION DESIGN; APPLICATION DESIGN METHOD; DESIGN METHOD; PARALLELIZATION TOOL AND MIDDLEWARE; PARALLELIZATION TOOLS; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PERFORMANCE-MONITORING; PVM; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATION CODES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84966567505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.1998.10039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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