Title :
Performance analysis of distributed applications by suitability functions
Author :
Getov, V.S. ; Hockney, R.W. ; Hey, A.J.G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Southampton Univ., UK
Abstract :
A simple programming model of distributed-memory message-passing computer systems is first applied to describe the couple architecture/application by two sets of parameters. The node timing formula is then derived on the basis of scalar, vector and communication components. A set of suitability functions, extracted from the performance formulae, are defined. These functions are applied as an example to the performance analysis of the 1-dimensional FFT benchmark from the GENESIS benchmark suite. The suitability functions could also be useful for comparative performance analysis of both existing distributed-memory systems and new architectures under development
Keywords :
distributed memory systems; message passing; parallel programming; performance evaluation; program testing; 1-dimensional FFT benchmark; GENESIS benchmark suite; communication components; couple architecture/application; distributed applications; distributed-memory message-passing computer systems; node timing formula; performance analysis; performance formulae; simple programming model; suitability functions; Application software; Cache memory; Computer networks; Computer science; Distributed computing; Kernel; Loss measurement; Performance analysis; Performance loss; Vector processors;
Conference_Titel :
Programming Models for Massively Parallel Computers, 1993. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4900-3
DOI :
10.1109/PMMP.1993.315540
