A Framework for Performance Analysis of Parallel Discrete Event Simulators (1997)
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@MISC{Balakrishnan97aframework,
author = {Vijay Balakrishnan and Peter Frey and Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh and Philip A. Wilsey},
title = {A Framework for Performance Analysis of Parallel Discrete Event Simulators},
year = {1997}
}
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Abstract
Aframeworkforperformanceanalysisofparallel discreteeventsimulatorsispresented.Thecenterpieceofthisframeworkisaplatform -independent WorkloadSpecificationLanguage(WSL).WSLisa languagethatallowsthecharacterizationofsimulationmodelsusingasetoffundamentalperformance - criticalparameters.WSLalsoimplementsafacility forrepresentingrealmodels.Foreachsimulatorto betested,aWSLtranslatorisusedtogeneratesyntheticplatform -specificsimulationmodelsthatconformtotheperformancecharacteristicscapturedby theWSLdescription.Accordingly,setsofportable simulationmodelsthatexplorethee#ectsofthedifferentparameters, individuallyorcollectively,onthe performancecanbeconstructed.Theconstruction oftheworkloadsimulationmodelsisassistedusing aSyntheticWorkloadGenerator(SWG).Theutility ofthesystemisdemonstratedwiththegenerationof arepresentativesetofexperiments.Thedescribed frameworkcanbeusedtocreateastandardbenchmarksuitethatconsistsofamixtureofrealsimu - lationmodels,selectedfromdi#erentapplicationdomains, andsyntheticmodelsgeneratedbySWG.
