Abstract

Performance evaluation of Parallel Discrete-Event Simulation (PDES) environments is a complex task. PDES environments are commonly tested and compared using synthetic and real models. These models are built using environment-specific languages and are incompatible with other simulation platforms. There is a need for a common benchmark suite that can be used across different simulation kernels. This thesis suggests a framework for building such a benchmark suite. The framework centers around a workload specification language (WSL) --- a language for capturing the performance-critical characteristics of a workload. Therefore, a set of performance-critical parameters for workloads are identified and used to define the language. In addition to allowing the representation of actual simulation models, WSL can be used to define synthetic simulation models. Moreover, WSL has been designed to facilitate translation of the model to any specific simulation environment or language. A synthetic wor...

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