Distributed simulation of parallel computers

Author

Prylli, Loïc ; Tourancheau, Bernard

Author_Institution

LIP, Lyon Cedex, France

fYear

1996

fDate

8-11 Apr 1996

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

34

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Symposium, 1996., Proceedings of the 29th Annual

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

ISSN

1080-241X

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7432-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIMSYM.1996.492149

Filename

492149