A simulation model for the analysis of a cluster-based multiprocessor system

Author

De Armas, Mario ; Mahgoub, Imad

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

7-9 Mar 1993

Firstpage

457

Lastpage

461

Abstract

A cluster-based multiprocessor system that was introduced and analyzed by D. Agrawal and I. Mahgoub (1985, 1987) is considered. The analysis was based on an approximate analytical model, and the results were compared with those obtained for the crossbar and multiple-bus systems using the same model. A simulation model that relaxes two unrealistic assumptions of the approximate analytical model used by Agrawal and Mahgoub is developed here. The results obtained from the simulation model are compared with those obtained from the approximate analytical model for the cluster-based, crossbar, and multiple-bus systems. The simulation results confirm the conclusions arrived at in the previous studies

Keywords

computer architecture; digital simulation; multiprocessing systems; systems analysis; approximate analytical model; cluster-based multiprocessor system; crossbar system; high level algorithm; multiple bus system; simulation model; Algorithm design and analysis; Analytical models; Clocks; Clustering algorithms; Computational modeling; Multiprocessing systems; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Propagation delay; Switches; Synchronous generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 1993. Proceedings SSST '93., Twenty-Fifth Southeastern Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tuscaloosa, AL

ISSN

0094-2898

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3560-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.1993.522822

Filename

522822