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From: bunny!hhd0@gte.com (Horace Dediu)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Simulation of Multiprocessors
Summary: Are there any FLEXIBLE simulators out there?
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Date: 24 Oct 88 12:23:45 GMT
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Greetings!

I am interested in developing a flexible simulator for multiprocessor
architectures.  That is, developing a formal description language for
multi-functional-unit machines and using the description to simulate the
architecture to determine performance.  The description would include the
interconnection network (a graph) and the processor description (in ISPS
notation [Barbacci '80]).  I know simulators exist for particular machines,
but I want to build a flexible simulator, in which the architecture is a
free variable.

Note that this means simulation *of* multiprocessors on uniprocessors,
not simulation *on* multiprocessors.  I would like to know what others
have done in this area.  Preliminary searches have not yielded much.  If
anyone knows about research in this area, please mail or post.  I promise a
summary.

I thank you all,
Horace Dediu    hhd0@gte.com