Architecture and application: The performance of the NEC SX-4 on the NCAR benchmark suite

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn 1996-November, Issue , 1996, Pages

  Hammond, Steven W ^a   Loft, Richard D ^a   Tannenbaum, Philip D ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HNSX Supercomputers Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

BENCHMARK SUITES; CLOCK CYCLES; MODEL APPLICATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PEAK PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE; SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE; SHORT-VECTOR PROCESSING; VECTOR PROCESSORS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 85038053820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SUPERC.1996.183527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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