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Recent Publications

  • Mike Kistler, Michael Perrone, Fabrizio Petrini. Cell Multiprocessor Interconnection Network: Built for Speed. In IEEE Micro, 26(3), May/June 2006.
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  • Jon Beecroft, David Addison, David Hewson, Moray McLaren, Duncan Roweth, Fabrizio Petrini and Jarek Nieplocha. QsNet II: Defining High-Performance Network Design. In IEEE Micro. 25(4):34-47, July/August 2005.
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  • Eitan Frachtenberg, Dror G. Feitelson, Fabrizio Petrini and Juan Fernandez. Adaptive Parallel Job Scheduling with Flexible CoScheduling. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Processing. To appear, 2005.
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  • Jose' Carlos Sancho, Fabrizio Petrini, Kei Davis, Roberto Gioiosa and Song Jiang First Workshop on System Management Tools for Large-Scale Parallel Systems, 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), Denver, CO, April 2005.
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  • Juan Fernandez, Fabrizio Petrini and Eitan Frachtenberg. Monitoring and Debugging Parallel Software with BCS-MPI on Large-Scale Clusters. First Workshop on System Management Tools for Large-Scale Parallel Systems,19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), Denver, CO, April 2005.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini, Juan Fernandez, Adam Moody, Eitan Frachtenberg and Dhabaleswar Panda. NIC-based Reduction Algorithms for Large-scale Clusters. International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN). To appear, 2005.
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  • Juan Fernandez, Fabrizio Petrini and Eitan Frachtenberg. Achieving Predictable and Scalable Performance with BCS-MPI. In Engineering the Grid. Jack Dongarra and Hans Zima and Adolfy Hoisie and Laurence Yang and Beniamino di Martino editors. To appear, 2005.
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  • Roberto Gioiosa, Fabrizio Petrini, Kei Davis and Fabien Lebaillif-Delamare. Analysis of System Overhead on Parallel Computers. In The 4th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2004), Rome, Italy, December 2004.
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  • Kei Davis, Adolfy Hoisie, Greg Johnson, Darren J. Kerbyson, Mike Lang, Scott Pakin and Fabrizio Petrini. A Performance and Scalability Analysis of the BlueGene/L Architecture. In IEEE/ACM SC2004, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2004.
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  • Eitan Frachtenberg, Kei Davis, Fabrizio Petrini, Juan Fernandez, and Jose' Carlos Sancho. Designing Parallel Operating Systems via Parallel Programming. Euro-Par 2004, Pisa, Italy, August 2004.
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  • Juan Fernandez, Eitan Frachtenberg, Fabrizio Petrini, Kei Davis, and Jose' Carlos Sancho. Architectural Support for System Software on Large-Scale Clusters. In International Conference on Parallel Processing 2004 (ICPP2004), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 2004.
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  • Darren Kerbyson, Adolfy Hoisie, Scott Pakin, Fabrizio Petrini, and Harvey Wasserman. A Performance Evaluation of an Alpha EV7 Processing Node. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Vol. 18 Issue 2, May 2004.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini, Kei Davis and Jose' Carlos Sancho. System-Level Fault-Tolerance in Large-Scale Parallel Machines with Buffered Coscheduling. In 9th IEEE Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems (FTPDS04), Santa Fe, NM, April 2004.
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  • Jose' Carlos Sancho, Fabrizio Petrini, Greg Johnson, Juan Fernandez and Eitan Frachtenberg. On the Feasibility of Incremental Checkpointing for Scientific Computing. In International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS04), Santa Fe, NM, April 2004.
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  • Juan Fernandez, Eitan Frachtenberg and Fabrizio Petrini. BCS MPI: a New Approach in the System Software Design for Large-Scale Parallel Computers. In IEEE/ACM SC2003, Phoenix, AZ, November 2003.
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  • Adam Moody, Juan Fernandez, Fabrizio Petrini and Dhabaleswar Panda. Scalable NIC-based reduction on Large-scale Clusters. In IEEE/ACM SC2003, Phoenix, AZ, November 2003.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini, Darren Kerbyson and Scott Pakin. The Case of the Missing Supercomputer Performance: Achieving Optimal Performance on the 8,192 Processors of ASCI Q. In IEEE/ACM SC2003, Phoenix, AZ, November 2003. Best Paper Award
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  • Salvador Coll, Jose' Duato, Fabrizio Petrini and Francisco Mora. Scalable Hardware-Based Multicast Trees. In IEEE/ACM SC2003, Phoenix, AZ, November 2003.
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  • Salvador Coll, Jose' Duato, Francisco Mora, Fabrizio Petrini and Adolfy Hoisie. Collective Communication Patterns on the Quadrics Network. In Performance Analysis and Grid Computing, Vladimir Getov, Michael Gerndt, Adolfy Hoisie, Allen Malony, Barton Miller, editors, Kluwer, September 2003.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini, Salvador Coll, Juan Fernandez and Eitan Frachtenberg. Scalable Collective Communication on the ASCI Q Machine. In Hot Interconnects 11, Stanford University, CA, August 2003.
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  • David Addison, Jon Beecroft, David Hewson, Moray McLaren and Fabrizio Petrini. Quadrics QsNet II: A network for Supercomputing Applications. In Hot Chips 15, Stanford University, CA, August 2003.
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  • Eitan Frachtenberg, Dror Feitelson, Juan Fernandez and Fabrizio Petrini. Parallel Job Scheduling under Dynamic Workloads. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP'03), In Conjunction with HPDC12 / GGF8, Seattle, WA, June 2003.
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  • Eitan Frachtenberg, Dror Feitelson, Fabrizio Petrini and Juan Fernandez. Flexible CoScheduling: Mitigating Load Imbalance and Improving Utilization of Heterogeneous Resources. In International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS03), Nice, France, April 2003. Best Paper Award, Computer Architecture Track. LAUR# 02-6505
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  • Salvador Coll, Eitan Frachtenberg, Fabrizio Petrini, Adolfy Hoisie, and Leonid Gurvits. Using Multirail Networks in High-Performance Clusters. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 15(7-8): 625-651, April 2003.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini, Salvador Coll, Eitan Frachtenberg and Adolfy Hoisie. Performance Evaluation of the Quadrics Interconnection Network. Journal of Cluster Computing, 6(2): 125-142, April 2003.
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  • Eitan Frachtenberg, Fabrizio Petrini, Juan Fernandez, Scott Pakin and Salvador Coll. STORM: Lightning-Fast Resource Management. In IEEE/ACM SC2002, Baltimore, MD, November 2002.
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  • Darren Kerbyson, Adolfy Hoisie, Scott Pakin, Fabrizio Petrini, and Harvey Wasserman. Performance Testing of the Marvel EV7 AlphaServer Machine. In Proceedings of the Los Alamos Computer Science Institute (LACSI) Symposium, Santa Fe, NM, October 2002.
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  • Eitan Frachtenberg, Fabrizio Petrini, Juan Fernandez and Salvador Coll. Scalable Resource Management in High Performance Computers. In IEEE Cluster 2002, Chicago, IL, September 2002.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini. Scaling to Thousands of Processors with Buffered Coscheduling. Scaling to New Height Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2002.
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  • Salvador Coll, Fabrizio Petrini, Eitan Frachtenberg and Adolfy Hoisie. Performance Evaluation of I/O Traffic and Placement of I/O Nodes on a High Performance Network. In Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters 2002 (CAC '02), International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2002 (IPDPS '02), Fort Lauderdale, FL, April 2002.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini, Salvador Coll, Eitan Frachtenberg and Adolfy Hoisie. Hardware- and Software-Based Collective Communication on the Quadrics Network. In IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications 2001 (NCA 2001), Boston, MA, February 2002.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini, Wu-chun Feng, Adolfy Hoisie, Salvador Coll, and Eitan Frachtenberg. The Quadrics Network (QsNet): High-Performance Clustering Technology. In IEEE Micro, 22(1):46-57, January-February 2002
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Wu-chun Feng. Improved Resource Utilization with Buffered Coscheduling. Journal of Parallel Algorithms and Applications, Vol 16, 2001.
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  • Darren Kerbyson, Hank Alme, Adolfy Hoisie, Fabrizio Petrini, Harvey Wasserman and Mike Gittings. Predictive Performance and Scalability Modeling of a Large-Scale Application. In IEEE/ACM SC2001, Denver, CO, November 2001.
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  • Salvador Coll, Eitan Frachtenberg, Fabrizio Petrini, Adolfy Hoisie, and Leonid Gurvits. Using Multirail Networks in High-Performance Clusters. In IEEE Cluster 2001, Newport Beach, CA, October 2001.
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  • Eitan Frachtenberg, Fabrizio Petrini, Salvador Coll and Wu-chun Feng. Gang Scheduling with Lightweight User-Level Communication . In 2001 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP2001), Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Cluster Computing, Valencia Spain, September 2001.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini, Wu-chun Feng, Adolfy Hoisie, Salvador Coll, and Eitan Frachtenberg. The Quadrics Network (QsNet): High-Performance Clustering Technology. In Hot Interconnects 9, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, August 2001.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini, Adolfy Hoisie, Wu-chun Feng and Richard Graham. Performance Evaluation of the Quadrics Interconnection Network, In Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters 2001 (CAC '01), International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2001 (IPDPS '01), San Francisco, CA, April 2001.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini. Efficient Total-Exchange in Wormhole-Routed Toroidal Cubes. Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Vol 19, 2000.
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  • Adolfy Hoisie, Olaf Lubeck, Harvey Wasserman, Fabrizio Petrini and Hank Alme. A General Predictive Performance Model for Wavefront Algorithms on Clusters of SMPs, In International Conference on Parallel Processing 2000 (ICPP2000), Toronto, Canada, August 2000.
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  • Federico Bassetti, Fabrizio Petrini and Monica Reggiani. A Preliminary Study of the Impact of Memory Hierarchy on Stencil Operations for Cache-Based Architectures. In International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'2000), Las Vegas NV, June 2000.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Wu-chun Feng. Time-Sharing Parallel Jobs in the Presence of Multiple Resource Requirements. In Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1911, May 2000.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Wu-chun Feng. Buffered Coscheduling: A New Methodology for Multitasking Parallel Jobs on Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2000 (IPDPS2000), Cancun, MX, May 2000.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Wu-chun Feng. Scheduling with Global Information in Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, April 2000.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Wu-chun Feng. Efficient Resource Utilization on Massively Parallel Systems. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications (ADCOM'99), Rourkee, India, December 1999.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini, Federico Bassetti and Alex Gerbessiotis. A New Approach to Parallel Program Development and Scheduling of Parallel Jobs on Distributed Systems. In 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'99), Las Vegas NV, July 1999.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. Performance Analysis of Wormhole Routed k-ary n-trees. International Journal on Foundations of Computer Science, 9(2):155-177, 1998.
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  • Alex Gerbessiotis and Fabrizio Petrini. Network Performance Assessment under the BSP Model. International Workshop on Constructive Methods for Parallel Programming, CMPP'98, Marstrand, Sweden, June 1998.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini. Total-Exchange on Wormhole k-ary n-cubes with Adaptive Routing. In Proceedings of the 12th International Parallel Processing Symposium, IPPS'98, Orlando, Florida, March 1998.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini, José Duato, Pedro López, and Juan-Miguel Martínez. LIFE: a Limited Injection, Fully adaptivE, Recovery-Based Routing Algorithm. In High Performance Computing 97, (HiPC'97), Bangalore, India, December 1997.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. Efficient Personalized Communication on Wormhole Networks. The 1997 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, PACT'97, San Francisco, CA, November 1997.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. Efficient Total-Exchange in Wormhole-Routed Toroidal Cubes. In Third International Euro-Par Conference, Passau, Germany, August 1997.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. Network Performance under Physical Constraints. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing 1997, ICPP'97, Bloomingdale, IL, August 1997.
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  • Jeff Draper and Fabrizio Petrini. Routing in Bidirectional k-ary n-cubes with the Red Rover Algorithm. In International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'97), Las Vegas, NV, July 1997.
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  • Pedro López, Jean-Miguel Martínez, José Duato, and Fabrizio Petrini. On the Reduction of Deadlock Frequency by Limiting Message Injection in Wormhole Networks. In Parallel Computing, Routing, and Communication Workshop, PCRCW'97, Atlanta, GA, June 1997.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. SMART: a Simulator of Massive ARchitectures and Topologies. In International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems Euro-PDS'97, Barcelona, Spain, June 1997.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. k-ary n-trees: High Performance Networks for Massively Parallel Architectures. In Proceedings of the 11th International Parallel Processing Symposium, IPPS'97, pages 87-93, Geneva, Switzerland, April 1997.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. Performance Analysis of Minimal Adaptive Wormhole Routing with Time-Dependent Deadlock Recovery. In Proceedings of the 11th International Parallel Processing Symposium, IPPS'97, pages 589-595, Geneva, Switzerland, April 1997.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. A Comparison of Wormhole-Routed Interconnection Networks. In Third International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, March 1997.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. Minimal Adaptive Routing with Limited Injection on Toroidal k-ary n-cubes. In Supercomputing 96, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1996.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. Latency and Bandwidth Requirements of Massively Parallel Programs: FFT as a Case Study. In Second International Euro-Par Conference, Volume I, number 1123 in LNCS, pages 307-312, Lyon, France, August 1996.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. Minimal vs. non Minimal Adaptive Routing on k-ary n-cubes. In International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'96), volume I, pages 505-516, Sunnyvale, CA, August 1996.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. Physical Architectures: Interconnection and Communication. In Gianfranco Balbo and Marco Vanneschi, editors, General Purpose Parallel Computers - Architectures, Programming Environments, and Tools, chapter 2, pages 27-65. Edizioni ETS, Pisa, September 1995.
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Technical Reports

  • Kei Davis, Adolfy Hoisie, Greg Johnson, Darren Kerbyson, Mike Lang, Scott Pakin and Fabrizio Petrini. Lightning: A Performance and Scalability Report on the Use of 1020 nodes. March 2004. LAUR 04-1652.
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  • Kei Davis, Adolfy Hoisie, Greg Johnson, Darren Kerbyson, Mike Lang, Scott Pakin and Fabrizio Petrini. Blue Gene: A Performance and Scalability Report at the 512-Processor Milestone. February 2004. LAUR 04-1114.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini, Darren Kerbyson and Adolfy Hoisie. Further Improvements in ASCI Q Performance and Variability: an Application of the PAL Methodology for Identifying and Eliminating Performance Variability. February 2003. LAUR 03-1021.
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  • Adolfy Hoisie, Darren Kerbyson, Scott Pakin, Fabrizio Petrini, Harvey Wasserman and Juan Fernandez Peinador. Identifying and Eliminating the Performance Variability on the ASCI Q Machine. January 2003.
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  • Eitan Frachtenberg and Fabrizio Petrini. Overlapping Communication and Computation in the Quadrics Network. LAUR 01-4695, August 2001.
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  • Eitan Frachtenberg and Fabrizio Petrini. Scheduler Testbed System Design. LAUR 01-4694, August 2001.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini. Communication Performance of Wormhole Interconnection Networks. PhD thesis, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Dipartimento di Informatica, February 1997.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. Latency and Bandwidth Requirements of Massively Parallel Programs: FFT as a Case Study. Technical Report TR-96-2, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, March 1996.
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  • Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi. k-ary n-trees: High Performance Networks for Massively Parallel Architectures. Technical Report TR-95-18, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, December 1995.
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