Title :
Strategies for the Massively Parallel Simulation of Interconnection Networks
Author :
Jurczyk, M. ; Schwederski, T. ; Born, R. ; Siegel, H.J. ; Abraham, S.
Author_Institution :
Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart, Germany
Abstract :
Methods for enhancing multistage interconnection network simulators running on massively parallel SIMD computers are presented. Aspects of parallel simulation of interconnection networks are discussed and different strategies of mapping the architecture of the network to be simulated onto the parallel machine are studied and compared. As case studies, two strategies of mapping synchronous multistage cube networks onto the MasPar MP-1 SIMD machine are explored and their implementations are compared. The methods result in an efficient simulator which can process 10^9 data packets in 40 minutes.
Keywords :
Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer simulation; Discrete event simulation; Microelectronics; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Parallel processing; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Processing, 1994. Vol. 1. ICPP 1994. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
North Carolina State University, NC, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8493-2493-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICPP.1994.187
