RMSIM: a serial simulator for reconfigurable mesh parallel computers
Manzur Murshed, Richard P. Brent · ANU Open Research (Australian National University) · 1997
There has recently been an interest in the introduction of reconfigurable buses to existing parallel architectures. Among them Reconfigurable Mesh (RM) draws much attention because of its simplicity. This paper presents the RMSIM (Reconfigurable Mesh SIMulator), a serial simulator written in C, which permits to study algorithms for restricted 3-dimensional RM, known as mesh of meshes, in a monoprocessor environment. RMSIM is an easy-to-use simulator capable of simulating any algorithm in different axisorientations within restricted regions. To enhance the debugging facilities RMSIM is equipped with a snapshotter to generate L A T E X pictures of any planar segment of the simulated mesh in any step of program execution. Corresponding author. 1 Introduction It is well-known that interprocessor communications and simultaneous memory accesses often act as bottlenecks in present-day parallel machines. Bus systems have been introduced recently to a number of parallel machines to addr...