Performance Visualization and Analysis of Parallel Discrete Event Simulations with Projections
PPL Technical Report 2005
Publication Type: Paper
Repository URL: PDESperfPADS06
Abstract
In designing software for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation
(PDES), detailed performance analysis has proved essential to
address the challenges of minimizing overhead, maximizing
parallelism and achieving scalability. This paper describes
Projections, a performance visualization and analysis tool for
parallel applications in Charm++, and its usage in the analysis of
PDES applications. We discuss PDES analysis from three points of
view: PDES tool design, PDES simulation design and PDES model
analysis. We describe enhancements to Projections that make
PDES-specific performance visualizations possible. We also develop
generic analysis capabilities that can be used by other PDES
engines. We demonstrate the utility of these features with Pose
applications.
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Chee Wai Lee, Terry L. Wilmarth and Laxmikant V. Kale.
Performance Visualization and Analysis of Parallel Discrete
Event Simulations with Projections.
Technical Report, Parallel Programming Laboratory,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
05-19, Nov 2005.
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