Performance and experience with LAPI-A new high-performance communication library for the IBM RS/6000 SP

Proceedings of the 1st Merged International Parallel Processing Symposium and Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, IPPS/SPDP 1998

Volumn 1998-March, Issue , 1998, Pages 260-266

  Shah, Gautam ^a   Nieplocha, Jarek ^b   Mirza, Jamshed ^a   Kim, Chulho ^a   Harrison, Robert ^b   Govindaraju, Rama K ^a   Gildea, Kevin ^a   DiNicola, Paul ^a   Bender, Carl ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MESSAGE; END-USER APPLICATIONS; GLOBAL ARRAYS TOOLKITS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATION; ITS APPLICATIONS; PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORIES; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 85045006562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPPS.1998.669923     Document Type: Conference Paper

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