Parallel simulation of a dataflow architecture

Author

Ahmed, Hallo ; Ayani, Rassul ; Rajaei, Hassan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Telecommun. & Comput. Syst., R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

1993

fDate

27-29 Jan 1993

Firstpage

523

Lastpage

528

Abstract

Multiprocessor systems are becoming widespread, and their prices more affordable. This suggests the use of multiprocessors in an important area of computer applications, namely in simulation. In this paper, we apply a parallel simulation scheme to a real problem: the simulation of a dataflow architecture, and we compare the performance of this simulator with that of a sequential one. Moreover, we investigate the effect of modelling the application on the performance of the simulator. Our study indicates that parallel simulation can reduce the execution time significantly if appropriate modelling is used

Keywords

parallel architectures; parallel processing; parallel programming; virtual machines; dataflow architecture; execution time; modelling; multiprocessor systems; parallel simulation; performance; sequential simulation; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer applications; Computer architecture; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Costs; Multiprocessing systems; Production; Virtual prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1993. Proceedings. Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

Gran Canaria

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3610-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.1993.336361

Filename

336361