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Performance analysis of message-passing multiprocessors

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5216085
The report discusses an analytical model for analyzing the performance of a message passing multiprocessor achieving concurrency by domain decomposition, i.e., by partitioning the data domain into sub-domains, and carrying out computation on each sub-domain in a different processor. Studies on different numerical algorithms reveal that execution of an algorithm can be modelled as repetitive cycles where a cycle consists of computation followed by communication or computation with overlapped communication. The paper gives expressions for the execution times, speed-ups and efficiencies for different models of parallel algorithm execution. These expressions have been used to study how the efficiency varies with different parameters such as computation-communication ratio and processor load balancing.
Research Organization:
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore (India)
OSTI ID:
5216085
Report Number(s):
PB-91-207860/XAB
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English