ADVANCES IN MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF LARGE PARALLEL/DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Murali K. Nethi, J.H. Aylor · Parallel Processing Letters · 2005
Many systems being designed today are extremely large and are being used to solve huge computational problems. The new system architectures being proposed are huge distributed and parallel systems with thousands of processors distributed widely over space and executing large applications. These new systems are used to solve the Grand Challenge problems. Significant emphasis has been placed on the evaluation of the performance of these systems. This paper surveys recent performance evaluation tools that have been developed to evaluate the performance of such parallel and distributed systems. A new methodology of performance evaluation using hardware description languages is proposed and its advantages over the existing approaches are discussed.