Simulating Whole Supercomputer Applications

Author

Gonzalez, Jose ; Casas, Marc ; Gimenez, Javier ; Moreto, Miquel ; Ramirez, Adrian ; Labarta, Jesus ; Valero, M.R.

Volume

31

Issue

3

fYear

2011

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

45

Abstract

Detailed simulations of large scale message-passing interface parallel applications are extremely time consuming and resource intensive. A new methodology that combines signal processing and data mining techniques plus a multilevel simulation reduces the simulated data by various orders of magnitude. This reduction makes possible detailed software performance analysis and accurate performance predictions in a reasonable time.

Keywords

data mining; message passing; parallel machines; signal processing; software performance evaluation; data mining; large scale message-passing interface parallel application; multilevel simulation; signal processing; software performance analysis; supercomputer applications; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Hardware; Microarchitecture; Program processors; Radiation detectors; Barcelona Supercomputing Center; cluster analysis; message-passing interface; microarchitecture simulation; network simulation; parallel applications; performance analysis; performance prediction; spectral analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1732

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MM.2011.58

Filename

5875957