Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/PCCC.1992.200602
