Title :
Measuring the overhead in conservative parallel simulations of multicomputer programs
Author :
Bailey, Mary L. ; Pagels, Michael A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ, USA
Abstract :
It is shown that it is feasible to characterize the overheads present in conservative parallel simulations of multicomputer programs. The authors use a modified version of the parallel simulator from the Poker programming environment to empirically measure the overhead in two parallel algorithms which use three different interconnection structures. They discuss the sources of overhead and qualitatively discuss their relative importance
Keywords :
digital simulation; parallel algorithms; parallel programming; performance evaluation; programming environments; Poker programming environment; conservative parallel simulations; multicomputer programs; overhead measuring; parallel algorithms; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer science; Costs; Discrete event simulation; Electric breakdown; Parallel algorithms; Programming environments; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference, 1991. Proceedings., Winter
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0181-1
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.1991.185667
