Performance Prediction of Distributed Applications Running on Network of Workstations.
Julien Bourgeois, François Spies, Michel Tréhel · 1999
The Networks of Workstations (NoW) are becoming real distributed execution platforms for scienti c applications. Nevertheless, the heterogeneity of these platforms makes complex the design and the optimization of distributed applications. To overcome this problem, we have developed a performance prediction tool called ChronosMix, which can predict the execution time of a distributed algorithm on parallel or distributed architecture. The objective of ChronosMix is to compare distributed algorithms and to classify them according to their performance on dierent architecture. C/MPI programs can be modeled by static or a postmortem methods. Keywords: Performance prediction, parallel applications, distributed applications, simulation 1