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Predicting performance of SMP clusters
The paper reports on simulation-based performance prediction of parallel applications running on SMP clusters. First the typical message-passing programs are investigated, which demonstrate different computation/ communication patterns: process farm, pipeline and data parallel computing on a linear processor chain. The usefulness of various SMP cluster configurations is discussed with regard to obtained results. Then the message-passing model of shared memory and SMP clusters is used to simulate execution of hybrid message-passing/shared objects programs. A large system of linear equations is used as an example. A single SMP, a SMP cluster and a workstation cluster are compared in performance with a limited L1-cache size.
SMP clusters, performance modeling, performance prediction, communicating processes, hybrid parallel programming model
@inbook{BUT54888,
author="Rudolf {Čejka} and Václav {Dvořák} and Jiří {Staroba}",
title="Predicting performance of SMP clusters",
booktitle="Distributed and Parallel Systems - Cluster and Grid Computing",
year="2002",
publisher="Kluwer Academic Publishers",
address="Boston/London",
pages="38--45",
isbn="1-4020-7209-0"
}