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AccaSim: An HPC Simulator for Workload Management

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High Performance Computing (CARLA 2017)

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We present AccaSim, an HPC simulator for workload management. Thanks to the scalability and high customizability features of AccaSim, users can easily represent various real HPC system resources, develop dispatching methods and carry out large experiments across different workload sources. AccaSim is thus an attractive tool for conducting controlled experiments in HPC dispatching research.

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C. Galleguillos is supported by Postgraduate Grant PUCV 2017. We thank Alina Sîrbu for fruitful discussions on the work presented here.

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    Cristian Galleguillos, Zeynep Kiziltan & Alessio Netti

  2. Escuela de Ing. Informática, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

    Cristian Galleguillos

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Galleguillos, C., Kiziltan, Z., Netti, A. (2018). AccaSim: An HPC Simulator for Workload Management. In: Mocskos, E., Nesmachnow, S. (eds) High Performance Computing. CARLA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 796. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73353-1_12

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