Assessing Load Sharing within Optimistic Simulation Platforms (invited paper)
Roberto Vitali, Alessandro Pellegrini, and Francesco Quaglia
Published in: Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference
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Abstract:
The advent of multi-core machines has lead to the need for revising the architecture of modern simulation platforms. One recent proposal we made attempted to explore the viability of load-sharing for optimistic simulators run on top of these types of machines. In this article, we provide an extensive experimental study for an assessment of the effects on run-time dynamics by a load-sharing architecture that has been implemented within the ROOT-Sim package, namely an open source simulation platform adhering to the optimistic synchronization paradigm. This experimental study is essentially aimed at evaluating possible sources of overheads when supporting load-sharing. It has been based on differentiated workloads allowing us to generate different execution profiles in terms of, e.g., granularity/locality of the simulation events.
BibTeX Entry:
author = {Vitali, Roberto and Pellegrini, Alessandro and Quaglia, Francesco},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference},
title = {Assessing Load Sharing within Optimistic Simulation Platforms (invited paper)},
year = {2012},
month = dec,
pages = {1--13},
publisher = {Society for Computer Simulation},
series = {WSC},
location = {Berlin, Germany}
}