A technique for the distributed simulation of parallel computers

Author

Ricciulli, Livio

Author_Institution

SRI Int., USA

fYear

1995

fDate

18-20 Jan 1995

Firstpage

257

Lastpage

260

Abstract

A new technique for the efficient asynchronous discrete event-driven simulation of parallel shared-memory computers is proposed. Our execution-driven methodology, while introducing minimal synchronization overhead to maintain a coherent distributed event causality relation, allows complete virtualization of the design at all levels and therefore is very flexible. We give a detailed description of the proposed technique together with some preliminary performance results we obtained by implementing our parallelization technique on a CM-5 computer

Keywords

discrete event simulation; parallel machines; shared memory systems; virtual machines; CM-5 computer; coherent distributed event causality relation; complete virtualization; distributed simulation; efficient asynchronous discrete event-driven simulation; execution-driven methodology; minimal synchronization overhead; parallel computers; parallel shared-memory computers; Access protocols; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Context modeling; Contracts; Discrete event simulation; Distributed computing; Hardware; Parallel machines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 1995. MASCOTS '95., Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Durham, NC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6902-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASCOT.1995.378679

Filename

378679