A framework for end-to-end simulation of highperformance computing systems

SIMUTools 2008 - 1st International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Denzel, Wolfgang E ^a   Li, Jian ^b   Walker, Peter ^c   Jin, Yuho ^d  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IBM AUSTIN RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Open Grid Computing   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

End to end simulation; High Performance Computing; Inter connection network

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY;

APPLICATION TASKS; END-TO-END SIMULATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; HIGH-LEVEL SYSTEMS; MPI APPLICATIONS; NETWORK SIMULATORS; PERFORMANCE PROJECTIONS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84923295840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.3034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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