Download or read book A Methodology for Performance Evaluation of Parallel Applications on Multiprocessors written by International Business Machines Corporation. Rio Scientific Center and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Performance Evaluation Prediction and Visualization of Parallel Systems written by Xingfu Wu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Evaluation, Prediction and Visualization in Parallel Systems presents a comprehensive and systematic discussion of theoretics, methods, techniques and tools for performance evaluation, prediction and visualization of parallel systems. Chapter 1 gives a short overview of performance degradation of parallel systems, and presents a general discussion on the importance of performance evaluation, prediction and visualization of parallel systems. Chapter 2 analyzes and defines several kinds of serial and parallel runtime, points out some of the weaknesses of parallel speedup metrics, and discusses how to improve and generalize them. Chapter 3 describes formal definitions of scalability, addresses the basic metrics affecting the scalability of parallel systems, discusses scalability of parallel systems from three aspects: parallel architecture, parallel algorithm and parallel algorithm-architecture combinations, and analyzes the relations of scalability and speedup. Chapter 4 discusses the methodology of performance measurement, describes the benchmark- oriented performance test and analysis and how to measure speedup and scalability in practice. Chapter 5 analyzes the difficulties in performance prediction, discusses application-oriented and architecture-oriented performance prediction and how to predict speedup and scalability in practice. Chapter 6 discusses performance visualization techniques and tools for parallel systems from three stages: performance data collection, performance data filtering and performance data visualization, and classifies the existing performance visualization tools. Chapter 7 describes parallel compiling-based, search-based and knowledge-based performance debugging, which assists programmers to optimize the strategy or algorithm in their parallel programs, and presents visual programming-based performance debugging to help programmers identify the location and cause of the performance problem. It also provides concrete suggestions on how to modify their parallel program to improve the performance. Chapter 8 gives an overview of current interconnection networks for parallel systems, analyzes the scalability of interconnection networks, and discusses how to measure and improve network performances. Performance Evaluation, Prediction and Visualization in Parallel Systems serves as an excellent reference for researchers, and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the topic.

Download or read book A Methodology for Performance Evaluation in a Parallel Processing multiprocessing Environment written by Mark D. Foresti and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tools for High Performance Computing written by Rainer Keller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing software for current and especially for future architectures will require knowledge about parallel programming techniques of applications and library p- grammers. Multi-core processors are already available today, and processors with a dozen and more cores are on the horizon. The major driving force in hardware development, the game industry, has - ready shown interest in using parallel programming paradigms, such as OpenMP for further developments. Therefore developers have to be supported in the even more complex task of programming for these new architectures. HLRS has a long-lasting tradition of providing its user community with the most up-to-date software tools. Additionally, important research and development projects are worked on at the center: among the software packages developed are the MPI correctness checker Marmot, the OpenMP validation suite and the M- implementations PACX-MPI and Open MPI. All of these software packages are - ing extended in the context of German and European community research projects, such as ParMA, the InterActive European Grid (I2G) project and the German C- laborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich 716). Furthermore, ind- trial collaborations, i.e. with Intel and Microsoft allow HLRS to get its software production-grade ready. In April 2007, a European project on Parallel Programming for Multi-core - chitectures, in short ParMA was launched, with a major focus on providing and developing tools for parallel programming.

Download or read book Performance Evaluation Origins and Directions written by Günter Haring and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-29 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph-like state-of-the-art survey presents the history, the key ideas, the success stories, and future challenges of performance evaluation and demonstrates the impact of performance evaluation on a variety of different areas through case studies in a coherent and comprehensive way. Leading researchers in the field have contributed 19 cross-reviewed topical chapters competently covering the whole range of performance evaluation, from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in numerous other fields. Additionally, the book contains one contribution on the role of performance evaluation in industry and personal accounts of four pioneering researchers describing the genesis of breakthrough results. The book will become a valuable source of reference and indispensable reading for anybody active or interested in performance evaluation.

Download or read book Performance Evaluation of Parallel Algorithms and Architectures in Concurrent Multiprocessor Systems written by H. H. Ammar and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the research effort directed towards the study of issues concerning concurrent systems. Specifically the report concentrates on the design, evaluation, and tuning of application programs on parallel architectures. Issues including mapping algorithms to architectures, and parallel programming support tools are discussed. It is recognized that the currently available concurrent system analysis tools are not adequate in determining the detail performance of the application programs on specific architectures. To remedy this shortcomming, we recommend the development of a multiprocessor trace-driven simulator. This simulator will be beneficial to the evaluation on the performance of the SDI battle management algorithms on specific concurrent systems. (KR).

Download or read book Performance Evaluation of Supercomputers written by Joanne L. Martin and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1988 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although supercomputer systems are faster, and have larger memory hierarchies than other computer systems, such characteristics merely imply the existence of great potential power. How much of that power can be harnessed productively is the central theme of performance evaluation. A set of methods for evaluating the performance of applications on supercomputers has not yet been rigorously defined. This volume is a compilation of research approaches and techniques that are a promising means to that end. The contributions are grouped into three sections. Contributors to Performance looks at applications, algorithms, compilers, operating systems, and memory issues. Measurements and Metrics addresses some of the current techniques and methods of performance evaluation. Among the topics are: the performance monitoring capabilities of the CEDAR system, the methodology behind the Livermore loops, the empirical analysis of system performance, and a software simulator developed in connection with the RP3 project. Methods, Models, and Directions looks at ways of establishing a general and theoretical framework for supercomputer performance evaluation.

Download or read book Multiprocessor Performance Measurement and Evaluation written by Laxmi N. Bhuyan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Euro Par 2009 Parallel Processing written by Dick Epema and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2009, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in August 2009. The 85 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 256 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on support tools and environments; performance prediction and evaluation; scheduling and load balancing; high performance architectures and compilers; parallel and distributed databases; grid, cluster, and cloud computing; peer-to-peer computing; distributed systems and algorithms; parallel and distributed programming; parallel numerical algorithms; multicore and manycore programming; theory and algorithms for parallel computation; high performance networks; and mobile and ubiquitous computing.

Download or read book Euro Par 96 Parallel Processing written by Luc Bougé and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-08-14 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Content Description #Includes bibliographical references and index.

Download or read book Computer Architecture Performance Evaluation Methods written by Lieven Eeckhout and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance evaluation is at the foundation of computer architecture research and development. Contemporary microprocessors are so complex that architects cannot design systems based on intuition and simple models only. Adequate performance evaluation methods are absolutely crucial to steer the research and development process in the right direction. However, rigorous performance evaluation is non-trivial as there are multiple aspects to performance evaluation, such as picking workloads, selecting an appropriate modeling or simulation approach, running the model and interpreting the results using meaningful metrics. Each of these aspects is equally important and a performance evaluation method that lacks rigor in any of these crucial aspects may lead to inaccurate performance data and may drive research and development in a wrong direction. The goal of this book is to present an overview of the current state-of-the-art in computer architecture performance evaluation, with a special emphasis on methods for exploring processor architectures. The book focuses on fundamental concepts and ideas for obtaining accurate performance data. The book covers various topics in performance evaluation, ranging from performance metrics, to workload selection, to various modeling approaches including mechanistic and empirical modeling. And because simulation is by far the most prevalent modeling technique, more than half the book's content is devoted to simulation. The book provides an overview of the simulation techniques in the computer designer's toolbox, followed by various simulation acceleration techniques including sampled simulation, statistical simulation, parallel simulation and hardware-accelerated simulation. Table of Contents: Introduction / Performance Metrics / Workload Design / Analytical Performance Modeling / Simulation / Sampled Simulation / Statistical Simulation / Parallel Simulation and Hardware Acceleration / Concluding Remarks

Download or read book Programming Massively Parallel Processors written by David B. Kirk and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach, Second Edition, teaches students how to program massively parallel processors. It offers a detailed discussion of various techniques for constructing parallel programs. Case studies are used to demonstrate the development process, which begins with computational thinking and ends with effective and efficient parallel programs. This guide shows both student and professional alike the basic concepts of parallel programming and GPU architecture. Topics of performance, floating-point format, parallel patterns, and dynamic parallelism are covered in depth. This revised edition contains more parallel programming examples, commonly-used libraries such as Thrust, and explanations of the latest tools. It also provides new coverage of CUDA 5.0, improved performance, enhanced development tools, increased hardware support, and more; increased coverage of related technology, OpenCL and new material on algorithm patterns, GPU clusters, host programming, and data parallelism; and two new case studies (on MRI reconstruction and molecular visualization) that explore the latest applications of CUDA and GPUs for scientific research and high-performance computing. This book should be a valuable resource for advanced students, software engineers, programmers, and hardware engineers. - New coverage of CUDA 5.0, improved performance, enhanced development tools, increased hardware support, and more - Increased coverage of related technology, OpenCL and new material on algorithm patterns, GPU clusters, host programming, and data parallelism - Two new case studies (on MRI reconstruction and molecular visualization) explore the latest applications of CUDA and GPUs for scientific research and high-performance computing

Download or read book Workshop Summary Parallel Computer Systems written by Ann H. Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workshop, like its two predecessors, was an invitation-only meeting designed to bring together representatives of academia, industry, national laboratories, and government agencies to explore these issues. The workshop goals were to ascertain the current availability of toolsfor parallel computer performance evaluation, to report experiences with existing tools, including the results of parallel systems performance analysis, and to determine future needs for such tools as computer architectures become ever more diverse and complex."

Download or read book Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing written by Dror G. Feitelson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-10-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2000, held in Cancun, Mexico in May 2000 as a satelite meeting of IPDPS 2000. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed during an iterated evaluation process and present the state of the art in the area.

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Download or read book Performance Evaluation of Multiple Processor Systems written by Levy Raskin and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological trends in semiconductor and micro-processor development are clearly leading towards the production of a computer on a chip. In the near future such a computer module will include the equivalent of today's mini-computer with some memory. Connecting many computer-modules together will probably be a cost-effective way to build high performance computer systems. This thesis investigates and contrasts the performance of two multiple computer-module structures: a multiprocessor with shared memory and a local computer network in which all communication is via messages. Results are derived both from running benchmark applications and from performance models. Very little knowledge and experience has been gained on the performance of actual multiple processor applications. To investigate the problems and potential of these computer-module structures, a multiple processor system -- Cm** -- has been built. Firmware changes enable the emulation of both an efficient multiprocessor and a local computer network. Experiments were conducted on both types of structures to obtain performance information. Out practical methodology includes measurement of performance parameters using a set of benchmark application programs executing on Cm**, and performance models that were derived and validated - using the measurement results - and then applied for the performance investigation.