Execution-driven tools for parallel simulation of parallel architectures and applications

• Published in: Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing pp. 860 - 869
• Main Authors: Poulsen, D. K., Yew, P.-C.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 01.12.1993; IEEE
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Computer systems organization > Architectures > Parallel architectures; Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation > Simulation types and techniques > Massively parallel and high-performance simulations; Delay; Discrete event simulation; Feedback; Hardware; Instruments; Monitoring; Operating systems; Parallel architectures; Research and development; Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software verification and validation > Process validation > Traceability; Timing
• ISBN: 0818643404; 9780818643408
• ISSN: 1063-9535
• DOI: 10.1145/169627.169852

EPG-sim is a newly-developed set of tools that performs execution-driven critical path simulation, trace generation, and simulation for serial, optimistically parallelized, and parallel application codes. These capabilities are integrated within a single framework through the use of intelligent source-level instrumentation. The ability to perform execution-driven simulations driven by optimistically parallelized codes, the ability to execute these simulations on parallel hosts, the use of source-level instrumentation, and the integration of the capabilities provided by EPG-sim are among the novel contributions of this work. EPG-sim has important uses in studying parallel architectures, parallelizing compilers, and parallel applications.