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The POWER CHALLENGEarray is a coarse-grained collection of large processor SMP nodes. This creates interesting parallelization opportunities for scalable applications. The NAS BT benchmark is a classical ADI-like application with non-trivial communication requirements. The coarse-grained distributed feature of the POWER CHALLENGEarray provides unique parallelization strategies. We explore the implementation of this benchmark on this machine and discuss the general implications for scalable application development
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Brown, J., Zagha, M. (1996). Optimizing the NAS parallel BT application for the POWER CHALLENGEarray. In: Waśniewski, J., Dongarra, J., Madsen, K., Olesen, D. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing Industrial Computation and Optimization. PARA 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1184. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62095-8_13
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