Title :
Performability studies of hypercube architectures
Author :
Koriem, Samir M. ; Patnaik, L.M.
Author_Institution :
Indian Inst. of Sci., Bangalore, India
Abstract :
The authors propose a novel technique to study composite reliability and performance (performability) measures of hypercube systems using generalized stochastic Petri nets (GSPNs). This technique essentially consists of the following: (i) a GSPN reliability model; (ii) a GSPN performance model; and (iii) a way of combining the results from these two models. Models and performability results for an iPSC/2 hypercube system under the workload of concurrent matrix multiplication algorithm are presented
Keywords :
Petri nets; hypercube networks; matrix algebra; message passing; performance evaluation; reliability; concurrent matrix multiplication algorithm; generalized stochastic Petri nets; hypercube architectures; iPSC/2 hypercube system; performability results; performance model; reliability model; Computer architecture; Hardware; Hypercubes; Microprocessors; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Petri nets; Steady-state; Stochastic processes; Video recording;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Processing Symposium, 1992. Proceedings., Sixth International
Conference_Location :
Beverly Hills, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2672-0
DOI :
10.1109/IPPS.1992.222979
