Title :
Comparative performance analysis of uniformly distributed applications
Author :
Getov, V.S. ; Hockney, R.W.
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 coupled 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 shown to be particularly useful for comparative performance analysis of both existing distributed-memory systems and new architectures under development
Keywords :
distributed memory systems; message passing; performance evaluation; communication components; distributed-memory systems; message-passing computer systems; node timing formula; performance analysis; programming model; uniformly distributed applications; Application software; Cache memory; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Computer science; Distributed computing; Kernel; Performance analysis; Supercomputers; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1993. Proceedings. Euromicro Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Gran Canaria
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3610-6
DOI :
10.1109/EMPDP.1993.336394
