Experiences on implementing PARMACS macros to run the SPLASH-2 suite on multiprocessors

Author

Artiaga, Ernest ; Martorell, Xavier ; Becerra, Yolanda ; Navarro, Nacho

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Archit., Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

1998

fDate

21-23 Jan 1998

Firstpage

64

Lastpage

69

Abstract

In order to evaluate the goodness of parallel systems, it is necessary to know how parallel programs behave. The SPLASH-2 applications provide us with a realistic workload for such systems. So, we have made different implementations of the PARMACS macros used by SPLASH-2 applications, based on several execution and synchronization models, from classical Unix processes to multithreaded systems. Results have been tested in two different multiprocessor systems (Digital and Silicon Graphics). As parallel constructs in the SPLASH-2 applications are limited to those provided by PARMACS, we can easily study the overhead introduced by synchronization and parallelism management

Keywords

macros; multiprocessing systems; parallel programming; performance evaluation; synchronisation; PARMACS macros; SPLASH-2 suite; Unix; multiprocessors; multithreaded systems; parallel programs; parallel systems; parallelism management; synchronization models; Application software; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Graphics; Instruments; Kernel; Multiprocessing systems; Operating systems; Silicon; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1998. PDP '98. Proceedings of the Sixth Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8332-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.1998.647181

Filename

647181