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Nowadays, the performance of large-scale parallel computer system improves continuously, and the system scale becomes extremely large. Performance prediction has become an important approach to guide system design, implementation and optimization. Simulation method is the most widely used performance prediction technology for large-scale parallel computer system. In this paper, after analyzing the extant problems, we proposed a novel execution-driven performance simulation technology based on process-switch. We designed a simulation framework named PS-SIM, and implemented a prototype system based on MPICH2. Finally, we verified the proposed approach by experiments. Experimental results show that the approach has high accuracy and simulation performance.
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Guo, X., Lin, Y., Xu, X., Zhang, X. (2011). PS-SIM: An Execution-Driven Performance Simulation Technology Based on Process-Switch. In: Lin, S., Huang, X. (eds) Advances in Computer Science, Environment, Ecoinformatics, and Education. CSEE 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 215. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23324-1_4
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