An empirical performance evaluation of scalable scientific applications

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn 2002-November, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Vetter, Jeffrey S ^a   Yoo, Andy ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; MESSAGE PASSING;

COLLECTIVE OPERATIONS; COMMON TRAITS; EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENT; EMPIRICAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITIES; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCES EVALUATION; SCALINGS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS;

SCALABILITY;

EID: 85117198273     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2002.10036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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