Faster architectural simulation through parallelism

Authors:
J. W. Smith;K. S. Smith;R. J. Smith, II
Affiliations:
Parallel Processing Program at the Micmelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin Texas;-;-
Venue:
DAC '87 Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Year:
1987

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Abstract

Architectural simulation of complex systems is usually constrained by available computational resources. Recently, several commercial parallel processing systems have appeared with price-performance levels that make very intense simulations affordable. In this paper, we briefly review architectural simulation technology, then describe the approach used to develop a parallel architectural simulator. Performance of the parallel simulator is then experimentally characterized and analyzed. This study is one of the earliest to report measured performance of a widely-used commercial simulator, running non-trivial designs on a popular parallel computing system.