SMP system interconnect instrumentation for performance analysis

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn 2002-November, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Noordergraaf, Lisa ^a   Zak, Robert ^a  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

ACCESS PATTERNS; COMMODITY HARDWARE; DATA LOCALITY; LIMITED INFORMATION; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; PERFORMANCES ANALYSIS; SHARED RESOURCES; SMP COMPUTERS; SYSTEM INTERCONNECTS;

SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

EID: 85117253089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2002.10011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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