Experiments of a reconfigurable multiprocessor simulation on a distributed environment

Author

Apduhan, Bernady O. ; Sueyoshi, Toshinori ; Namiuchi, Yoshiki ; Tezuka, Tadanori ; Arita, Ltsujiro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Inst. of Technol., Izuka, Japan

fYear

1992

fDate

1-3 April 1992

Firstpage

539

Lastpage

546

Abstract

The experiments and analysis of a reconfigurable multiprocessor simulation on a cluster of workstations connected by Ethernet are presented. The system model and simulation environment is described. The monitoring/debugging tool and the concept of SPP, a proposed parallel programming paradigm which can effectively reduce the synchronization operations, are described. The structure of the modules comprised by the system software model are also described. The sequential and parallel versions of a computationally intensive sequential program were executed on different network topologies and its speedup ratios are analyzed and discussed. The crucial issues in realizing reconfigurable multiprocessor simulation on a distributed environment are considered.<>

Keywords

distributed processing; parallel programming; program debugging; reconfigurable architectures; synchronisation; virtual machines; Ethernet; computationally intensive sequential program; debugging; distributed environment; monitoring; parallel programming paradigm; reconfigurable multiprocessor simulation; synchronization; system model; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Debugging; Ethernet networks; Monitoring; Parallel programming; System software; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1992. Conference Proceedings., Eleventh Annual International Phoenix Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0605-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.1992.200602

Filename

200602