ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Selecting the checkpoint interval in time warp simulation
PADS '93 Proceedings of the seventh workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Adaptive checkpointing in Time Warp
PADS '94 Proceedings of the eighth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Effect of communication overheads on Time Warp performance: an experimental study
PADS '94 Proceedings of the eighth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Comparative analysis of periodic state saving techniques in time warp simulators
PADS '95 Proceedings of the ninth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
A case study in simulating PCS networks using Time Warp
PADS '95 Proceedings of the ninth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
High performance messaging on workstations: Illinois fast messages (FM) for Myrinet
Supercomputing '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Event sensitive state saving in time warp parallel discrete event simulations
WSC '96 Proceedings of the 28th conference on Winter simulation
Incremental state saving in SPEEDES using C++
WSC '93 Proceedings of the 25th conference on Winter simulation
An external state management system for optimistic parallel simulation
WSC '93 Proceedings of the 25th conference on Winter simulation
Combining periodic and probabilistic checkpointing in optimistic simulation
PADS '99 Proceedings of the thirteenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Exploiting model independence for parallel PCS network simulation
PADS '99 Proceedings of the thirteenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
ROSS: a high-performance, low memory, modular time warp system
PADS '00 Proceedings of the fourteenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Semi-asynchronous checkpointing for optimistic simulation on a Myrinet based NOW
Proceedings of the fifteenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
A Cost Model for Selecting Checkpoint Positions in Time Warp Parallel Simulation
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
MASCOTS '01 Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium in Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
ICS '03 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Supercomputing
CCL v3.0: Multiprogrammed Semi-Asynchronous Checkpoints
Proceedings of the seventeenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
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Checkpointing overhead is a major obstacle for the effectiveness of Time Warp parallel discrete event simulators. Semi-asynchronous checkpointing is a recent solution to tackle this obstacle for Time Warp simulations on distributed memory systems based on Myrinet. In this solution, checkpoint operations are offloaded from the host CPU and are charged to a DMA engine on board of Myrinet network cards. In this paper we report an empirical evaluation of the benefits from semi-asynchronous checkpointing for Tune Warp simulations of a large state Personal Communication System (PCS) model. PCS simulation models are typically characterized by high communication locality among the LPs hosted by the same machine, therefore the hardware on board of the Myrinet cards is typically underutilized if used to support exclusively communication. We show that the execution speed of Tune Warp simulations of a large state PCS model can be increased when semi-asynchronous checkpointing is adopted.