A Specification and Performance Evaluation Method for Multi-Paradigm Parallel Application Systems
Hu Chang · Chinese Journal of Computers · 2003
Multi-paradigm parallelism is the characteristic of large-scale parallel application systems. It is necessary to give the specification of a parallel application system and set up performance evaluation model for improving the developing and executing efficiency. In this paper, a specification method and performance evaluation model of large-scale parallel application systems is advanced, based on modules and their composition. It not only can describe the characteristics of multi-paradigm parallel application systems, but also introduces the composition cost of different parallel paradigm modules into the model. The cost includes the transforms of parallel executive models, data distribution and parallel programming paradigms, which makes the whole model more practical. We also analyze an instance in detail to verify the effect of our performance evaluation model and explain how to specify a multi-paradigm parallel application systems and how to determine parallelization strategies.