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Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
System Science","Computer Applications & Cybernetics","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Given the increased availability of general purpose parallel computers
two issues arise: 1) one needs to compare the performance of the diff
erent available platforms using realistic examples; 2) it is necessary
to write application software that can be ported easily in order to t
ake advantage of different platforms. In this work, we address these i
ssues from an applications point of view. We are interested in the use
of general purpose parallel computers for simulation tasks needed dur
ing the design of Very Large Scale Integrated circuits. We characteriz
e the simulation task as a useful benchmark and introduce a high level
process view of parallel simulation that is helpful for deriving port
able parallel programs. Details of the partitioning strategy and the s
imulation algorithm used in our application are given. We discuss our
implementation on different parallel machines and give statistics of v
arious experiments.