Title :
A Parallel Simulator for Large-Scale Parallel Computers
Author :
Zhi, Yuzhe ; Liu, Yi ; Jiao, Lin ; Zhang, Peng
Author_Institution :
Sino-German Software Instn., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
This paper describes the design and application of an execution-driven parallel simulator for predicting performance of Large-Scale Parallel Computers. The simulator can be used in hardware validation and software development for large-scale parallel computers. It simulates processors of each node, network components and disk I/O components. To illustrate the capabilities of our simulator, we describe experiments running the High Performance Linpack Benchmark on a simulated parallel computer. It gains sound speedup and executes fast enough to run complex MPI codes.
Keywords :
message passing; parallel machines; complex MPI code; disk I/O component; execution-driven parallel simulator; hardware validation; high performance Linpack benchmark; large-scale parallel computer; network component; software development; execution-driven; large-scale parallel computer; parallel simulation; simulator;
Conference_Titel :
Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC), 2010 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9334-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4313-0
DOI :
10.1109/GCC.2010.48
