Modeling the Performance of Computer Intensive Applications of a Parallel Computer

From the queuing system approach, a compute intensive application can be defined as any application where the arrival rate of processes into the processors queue is greater than the overall departure rate of the processes from the processors. Such a compute intensive application is ideal for a parallel computer because there are always processes for the processors to execute. This paper, therefore, aims at using a novel and efficient queuing approach to model some of the performance metrics of the parallel processors, for compute intensive applications.