Title :
Parallelizable execution-driven simulation of threaded distributed memory parallel computations
Author :
Nicol, D.M. ; Liu, J.X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Coll. of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
Abstract :
Discrete-event simulation is an important tool used for the performance evaluation of parallel systems. The space of tradeoffs is large however, when attempting to balance model fidelity and simulation execution tame. The paper describes a simulator-TAPS (Threaded Application Parallel System Simulator)-that, in the context of threaded parallel computations, provides a spectrum of possibilities in this tradeoff space. TAPS is specifically designed to be parallelized; we discuss some crucial considerations regarding its parallelization
Keywords :
discrete event simulation; distributed memory systems; parallel machines; parallel programming; performance evaluation; software performance evaluation; virtual machines; TAPS simulator; Threaded Application Parallel System Simulator; discrete-event simulation; model fidelity; parallel systems; parallelizable execution-driven simulation; parallelization; performance evaluation; simulation execution tame; threaded distributed memory parallel computations; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Context modeling; Discrete event simulation; Distributed computing; Object oriented modeling; Parallel processing; Space exploration; Virtual machining; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 1996. MASCOTS '96., Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7235-8
DOI :
10.1109/MASCOT.1996.501013
