Simulation of scientific programs on parallel architectures with MIMESIS environment

Author

Kempf, Gilles ; Caremoli, Christian ; Damm, Gérard ; Thang, Wei-Ying ; Van der Steen, Aad

Author_Institution

Electr. de France, Clamart, France

fYear

1996

fDate

8-11 Apr 1996

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

43

Abstract

The paper presents how a scientific application written using an SPMD programming model with message passing can be modeled and simulated. This description is based on the counting of basic operations and the recognition of known kernels. A Fortran analyzer was built to automatically generate a model of such an application for the simulation tool of the MIMESIS project, developed at EDF (Electricite de France). Models of distributed memory computers, taking advantage of this description, were implemented with the prototype of the project. The approach was validated with two EDF codes, for which the simulations gave good results

Keywords

distributed memory systems; message passing; parallel architectures; parallel programming; virtual machines; EDF; EDF codes; Fortran analyzer; MIMESIS environment; MIMESIS project; SPMD programming model; distributed memory computer models; message passing; parallel architectures; scientific application; scientific program simulation; simulation tool; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Density estimation robust algorithm; Distributed computing; Electronic mail; Hardware; Parallel architectures; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Symposium, 1996., Proceedings of the 29th Annual

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

ISSN

1080-241X

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7432-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIMSYM.1996.492150

Filename

492150