GTW: a time warp system for shared memory multiprocessors

Author

Das, Samir ; Fujimoto, Richard ; Panesar, Kiran ; Allison, Don ; Hybinette, Maria

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

11-14 Dec. 1994

Firstpage

1332

Lastpage

1339

Abstract

The design of the Georgia Tech Time Warp (GTW, version 2.0) executive for cache-coherent shared-memory multiprocessors is described. The programmer´s interface is presented. Several optimizations used to efficiently realize key functions such as event list manipulation, memory and buffer management, and message passing are discussed. An efficient algorithm for computing GVT on shared-memory multiprocessors is described. Measurements of a wireless personal communication services (PCS) network simulation indicate the GTW simulator is able to sustain performance as high as 335,000 committed events per second for this application on a 42-processor KSR-2 machine.

Keywords

buffer storage; discrete event simulation; message passing; shared memory systems; storage management; time warp simulation; 42-processor KSR-2 machine; GTW; Georgia Tech Time Warp; buffer management; event list manipulation; memory management; message passing; optimizations; shared memory multiprocessors; time warp system; wireless personal communication services; Computational modeling; Discrete event simulation; Educational institutions; Memory management; Message passing; Personal communication networks; Time measurement; Time warp simulation; Wireless communication; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference Proceedings, 1994. Winter

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2109-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.1994.717527

Filename

717527