• DocumentCode
    2062044
  • Title

    Proposal to solve workload problems in the simulator of the Wolf architecture

  • Author

    Cavenaghi, Marcos A. ; Martini, Joao A. ; Neto, Alvaro Garcia

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of Pao Paulo, Brazil
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    14-17 May 2000
  • Firstpage
    315
  • Abstract
    Presents an approach that has been proposed in order to investigate the workload balance problems in a simulator of the Wolf parallel architecture, known as Saw (Simulator of Architecture Wolf). This approach can be applied to the simulator in order to eliminate overloaded and underloaded units observed during the first experiments on the Wolf architecture. The unexpected results obtained are well-understood if one considers that the architecture simulated is based on a circular pipeline: if there is only one overloaded (or underloaded) unit in the simulator, it can affect the performance of the entire system, adding latency to it. The first attempt to improve the results obtained with the simulator was to calibrate all of the simulator units. The approach used leads to the necessity of dividing the units into two categories: grouped units and isolated units. These two categories are analyzed separately, resulting in modifications to the original architecture.
  • Keywords
    parallel architectures; performance evaluation; pipeline processing; resource allocation; virtual machines; Saw simulator; Wolf architecture simulator; architectural modifications; circular pipeline; grouped units; isolated units; latency; overloaded unit elimination; parallel architecture; performance; simulator unit calibration; underloaded unit elimination; workload balance problems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    High Performance Computing in the Asia-Pacific Region, 2000. Proceedings. The Fourth International Conference/Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing, China
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0589-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/HPC.2000.846568
  • Filename
    846568