Title :
Distributed simulation of parallel computers
Author :
Prylli, Loïc ; Tourancheau, Bernard
Author_Institution :
LIP, Lyon Cedex, France
Abstract :
We present our work on the simulation of distributed memory parallel computers. We design a distributed simulator that takes as input an application written for a MIMD computer and run it on a workstation cluster with just a recompilation of the code. The hardware of the target machine is simulated so that the behavior of the application is identical to a native run on the simulated computer with virtual timings and trace file. Moreover our analysis sets up the conditions required to achieve a good speedup as a function of the number of simulation hosts, the network latency and the granularity of the application
Keywords :
distributed memory systems; local area networks; performance evaluation; program compilers; virtual machines; MIMD computer; application granularity; code recompilation; distributed memory parallel computers; distributed simulation; distributed simulator; network latency; parallel computers; simulation hosts; trace file; virtual timings; workstation cluster; Analytical models; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Delay; Distributed computing; Hardware; Timing; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Symposium, 1996., Proceedings of the 29th Annual
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7432-6
DOI :
10.1109/SIMSYM.1996.492149
