Measuring high performance computing productivity

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 459-473

  Faulk, Stuart ^a   Gustafson, John ^b   Johnson, Philip ^c   Porter, Adam ^d   Tichy, Walter ^e   Votta, Lawrence ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b ECS Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^f SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

HPCS; Performance benchmark; Productivity; Productivity benchmark; Productivity metric

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTIVITY; TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEM (HPCS); PERFORMANCE BENCHMARK; PRODUCTIVITY BENCHMARK; PRODUCTIVITY METRIC;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 9744247646     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342004048539     Document Type: Article

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