Chief: a parallel simulation environment for parallel systems

Author

Bruner, John D. ; Cheong, Hoichi ; Veidenbaum, Alexander ; Yew, Pen-Chung

Author_Institution

Center for Supercomput. Res. & Dev., Illinois Univ., Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

30 Apr-2 May 1991

Firstpage

568

Lastpage

575

Abstract

The Chief project provides a environment for analyzing parallel systems. The project aims to employ the Perfect club benchmarks to evaluate performance. A tool (MaxPar) determines the maximum available parallelism in a program by instrumenting each program; the results are computed by running the compiled result. Three different parallel trace generators convert benchmark programs into trace input files for simulation. Parallel simulation kernels based upon event-driven and hybrid time- and event-driven models run on multiprocessors such as the Alliant FX/8. Simulation components are designed in a high-level language, and their modular design encourages reconfiguring existing components into new simulators to explore architectural variations. A graphical user-interface provides a powerful tool for simulator configuration, simulator debugging, and result visualization

Keywords

digital simulation; parallel machines; performance evaluation; Chief project; MaxPar; Perfect club benchmarks; benchmark programs; parallel simulation environment; parallel systems; parallel trace generators; performance evaluation; trace input files; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Debugging; Discrete event simulation; Instruments; Kernel; Parallel processing; Power system modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Symposium, 1991. Proceedings., Fifth International

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-9167-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPPS.1991.153838

Filename

153838