Title :
Parallel program performance evaluation and their behavior analysis on an OpenMP cluster
Author :
Cai, Fei ; Wu, Shaogang ; Zhang, Longbing ; Tang, Zhiming
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Technol., Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China
Abstract :
The OpenMP API is an emerging standard for parallel programming on shared memory multiprocessors. In order to run an OpenMP program on a cluster, one feasible scheme is to translate the OpenMP program into a software DSM program, then execute it on the cluster. Evaluating the performance of OpenMP programs and analyzing their behavior will help support the OpenMP programming model on a software DSM cluster efficiently. In this paper, we use an experimental approach to investigate how the characteristics of the software DSM cluster and the translation together with the original program behavior determine the performance of OpenMP programs on software DSM clusters.
Keywords :
application program interfaces; distributed shared memory systems; parallel programming; performance evaluation; software performance evaluation; workstation clusters; OpenMP API; OpenMP cluster; OpenMP programming model; behavior analysis; parallel programming; performance evaluation; shared memory multiprocessors; software DSM cluster; Access protocols; Application software; Computers; Electronic mail; Memory architecture; Parallel programming; Performance analysis; Program processors; Software systems; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2004. CCGrid 2004. IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8430-X
DOI :
10.1109/CCGrid.2004.1336641
