IP3T: a performance prediction software tool for irregular parallel applications

Author

Pahud, Michel

Author_Institution

Lab. de Microinf., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2000

fDate

2/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

387

Lastpage

393

Abstract

A performance prediction model for irregular and regular parallel applications is first presented in this paper. A performance prediction tool, named IP3T (Irregular Parallel Performance Prediction Tool) is then described. The main features of the IP3T tool are finally discussed. The distinctive feature of the model and the tool is that they afford to predict the performance of industry-oriented complex applications. The model was designed to be easily extensible. The IP3T tool has been successfully tested with several complex applications on MIMD-DM parallel machines and on networks of workstations and has proven to be accurate and reliable

Keywords

performance evaluation; software tools; synchronisation; workstation clusters; IP3T; Irregular Parallel Performance Prediction Tool; MIMD-DM parallel machines; irregular parallel applications; networks of workstations; performance prediction model; performance prediction software tool; Application software; Concurrent computing; Data structures; Parallel architectures; Parallel machines; Personal communication networks; Predictive models; Software tools; Time measurement; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2000. IPCCC '00. Conference Proceeding of the IEEE International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5979-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.2000.830342

Filename

830342