Exploiting Workload Parallelism for Performance and Power Optimization in Blue Gene

Optimizing future supercomputing applications will depend on delivering the best performance for a given power budget. To determine the effect on efficiency of application-scaling parameters, this article analyzes system power and performance measurement results for real-world applications exploiting thread- and data-level parallelism on the Blue Gene/L system

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