| Abstract |
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| This paper describes a performance-oriented environment forthe design of portable parallel software. The environment consistsof a graphical design tool based on the PVM communication libraryfor building parallel algorithms, a state-of-the-art simulationengine, a CPU characteriser and a visualisation tool for animationof program execution and visualisation of platform and networkperformance measures and statistics. The toolset is used to model avirtual machine composed of a cluster of workstations interconnectedby a local area network. The simulation model used is modular andits components are interchangeable which allows easyre-configuration of the platform. Both communication and CPU modelsare validated. |
| Contact |
| Thierry Delaitre Centre for Parallel Computing,University of Westminster,115 New Cavendish Street,London W1M 8JS,UK, delaitt@cpc.westminster.ac.uk |