DocumentCode
2895952
Title
Measuring the overhead in conservative parallel simulations of multicomputer programs
Author
Bailey, Mary L. ; Pagels, Michael A.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ, USA
fYear
1991
fDate
8-11 Dec 1991
Firstpage
627
Lastpage
636
Abstract
It is shown that it is feasible to characterize the overheads present in conservative parallel simulations of multicomputer programs. The authors use a modified version of the parallel simulator from the Poker programming environment to empirically measure the overhead in two parallel algorithms which use three different interconnection structures. They discuss the sources of overhead and qualitatively discuss their relative importance
Keywords
digital simulation; parallel algorithms; parallel programming; performance evaluation; programming environments; Poker programming environment; conservative parallel simulations; multicomputer programs; overhead measuring; parallel algorithms; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer science; Costs; Discrete event simulation; Electric breakdown; Parallel algorithms; Programming environments; Testing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Simulation Conference, 1991. Proceedings., Winter
Conference_Location
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN
0-7803-0181-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WSC.1991.185667
Filename
185667
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