Abstract
We illustrate the application of the hyperbolic model, which generalizes standard two-parameter dedicated-link models for communication costs in message-passing environments, to four distributed-memory architectures: Ethernet NOW, FDDI NOW, IBM SP2, and Intel Paragon. We first evaluate the parameters of the model from simple communication patterns. Then overall communication time estimates, which compare favorably with experimental measurements, are deduced for the message traffic in a scientific application code. For transformational computing on dedicated systems, for which message traffic is describable in terms of a finite number of regular patterns, the model offers a good compromise between the competing objectives of flexibility, tractability, and reliability of prediction.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Euro-Par 1996 Parallel Processing - 2nd International Euro-Par Conference, Proceedings |
Editors | Luc Bouge, Pierre Fraigniaud, Anne Mignotte, Yves Robert |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Pages | 387-396 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 3540616276, 9783540616276 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1996 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 2nd International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing, Euro-Par 1996 - Lyon, France Duration: Aug 26 1996 → Aug 29 1996 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 1124 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Other
Other | 2nd International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing, Euro-Par 1996 |
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Country/Territory | France |
City | Lyon |
Period | 08/26/96 → 08/29/96 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 1996, Springer Verlag. All rights reserved.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- General Computer Science