Solution of closed, product form, queueing networks via the RECAL and tree-RECAL methods on a shared memory multiprocessor

  • Authors:
  • A. G. Greenberg;J. McKenna

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey;AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey

  • Venue:
  • SIGMETRICS '89 Proceedings of the 1989 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

RECAL is a new recurrence relation for calculating the partition function and various queue length moments for closed, product form networks. In this paper we discuss a number of the issues involved in the software implementation of RECAL on both sequential computers and parallel, shared memory computers. After a brief description of RECAL, we describe software implementing RECAL on a sequential computer. In particular, we discuss the problems involved in indexing and data storage. Next we describe code implementing RECAL on a parallel, shared memory computer. Special attention is given to designing a special buffer for temporary data storage and several other important features of the parallel code. Finally, we touch on software for serial and parallel implementations of a tree algorithm for RECAL.