Title :
Performance analysis for clusters of symmetric multiprocessors
Author :
Almeida, F. ; Gómez, J.A. ; Badía, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Dpt. Estad., Inves. Operativa y Computacion, Univ. La Laguna
Abstract :
In this article we analyze and model the performance of a symmetrical multiprocessor cluster. The obtained model takes into account the heterogeneity of the architecture´s communications, which allows for a better adjustment and predictive ability of the performance. We used diverse applications with different parallel schemes to check the quality of the adjustments. The adjustment of the theoretical model and the experimental results is clearly improved when we take into account the combination of various mechanisms of communication
Keywords :
multiprocessing systems; parallel processing; performance evaluation; communication mechanism; performance analysis; symmetrical multiprocessor cluster; theoretical model; Communication networks; Communication standards; Computer architecture; Libraries; Message passing; Multicore processing; Parallel architectures; Performance analysis; Personal communication networks; Predictive models;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2007. PDP '07. 15th EUROMICRO International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Napoli
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2784-1
DOI :
10.1109/PDP.2007.63