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20th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS'06)
Improving Lookahead in Parallel Multiprocessor Simulation Using Dynamic Execution Path Prediction
Singapore
May 24-May 26
ISBN: 0-7695-2587-3
Moo-Kyoung Chung, Dynalith Systems Co., Ltd., Korea
Chong-Min Kyung, CHiPS KAIST, Korea
Simulation performance is dominated by lookahead in null message-based conservative time management of parallel discrete event simulation (PDES). This paper proposes a scheme for software execution path prediction to extend lookahead in parallel multiprocessor simulation. Templates for predicting program execution path are generated by software analysis, then, a processor model gets lookaheads by evaluating the templates at simulation time. We reduced the amount of null messages by a factor of 10 to 50 in parallel simulation with eight clustered workstations and, as a result, achieved a speedup factor of 4 to 7 compared to a conventional method having constant lookahead.
Citation:
Moo-Kyoung Chung, Chong-Min Kyung, "Improving Lookahead in Parallel Multiprocessor Simulation Using Dynamic Execution Path Prediction," pads, pp.11-18, 20th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS'06), 2006
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