Runtime Support for Replicated Parallel Simulators of an ATM Network on Workstation Clusters

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

8-1996

Abstract

An effective approach of speeding up the simulation of an ATM network on workstation clusters is presented. In this approach, multiple simulation runs are performed by replicated parallel simulators (RPSs) concurrently. Since the execution platform of the simulation is in a shared-network environment, the RPSs must compete with other applications for resources. The RPSs support adaptive execution by reconfiguring the grain-size of their logical processes dynamically. In addition, scheduling policies are proposed to facilitate efficient allocation of workstations to the RPSs. Experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of three proposed scheduling policies in the scenarios of homogeneous and heterogeneous workstation clusters.

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Finance and Financial Management | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

Publication

Euro-Par'96 Parallel Processing

Volume

1123

First Page

818

Last Page

821

ISBN

9783540706335

Identifier

10.1007/3-540-61626-8_107

Publisher

Springer Verlag

City or Country

Lyon, France

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61626-8_107

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