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Ursa Major: Exploring Web technology for design and evaluation of high-performance systems

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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1998)

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Ursa Major is a Web-based tool that facilitates the gathering of information about program characteristics and their execution behavior on high-performance machines. It supports users who want to learn about programs and programming methodologies as well as users who want to study in detail computational applications and their performance aspects. We present early experiences with Ursa Major and our vision of how the new internet technology and its combination with high-performance computing systems can be put to maximal use.

This work was supported in part by Purdue University, U. S. Army contract #DABT63-92-C-0033, and an NSF CAREER award. This work is not necessarily representative of the positions or policies of the U. S. Army or the Government.

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    Insung Park & Rudolf Eigenmann

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Park, I., Eigenmann, R. (1998). Ursa Major: Exploring Web technology for design and evaluation of high-performance systems. In: Sloot, P., Bubak, M., Hertzberger, B. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1401. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0037181

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