Computer architecture: a quantitative approach
Computer architecture: a quantitative approach
Execution-driven simulation of multiprocessors: address and timing analysis
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
PVM: Parallel virtual machine: a users' guide and tutorial for networked parallel computing
PVM: Parallel virtual machine: a users' guide and tutorial for networked parallel computing
Talisman: fast and accurate multicomputer simulation
Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
The interaction of parallel and sequential workloads on a network of workstations
Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
A Case for NOW (Networks of Workstations)
IEEE Micro
Modeling and characterizing parallel computing performance on heterogeneous networks of workstations
SPDP '95 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributeed Processing
Aspects of cache memory and instruction buffer performance
Aspects of cache memory and instruction buffer performance
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A Network of Workstations (NOW) has become an important distributed platform for large-scale scientific computations. A practical NOW system is heterogeneous and nondedicated, where computing power varies among the workstations and multiple jobs may interact with each other during execution. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a simulation system for a nondedicated heterogeneous NOW. This simulator provides many options to users to specify and quantify system architectures, network heterogeneity and time-sharing factors, such as speeds of different processors, memory organizations, network topology, communication structures, and workload distributions. The simulator also supports execution of message-passing parallel programs written in C and the PVM library. The software structure of the simulator is well-modularized and highly extensible, which makes it easy to integrate other existing processor, memory and network simulators.