A SYSTEMATIC-APPROACH FOR WORKLOAD MODELING FOR PARALLEL-PROCESSING SYSTEMS

The objectives in workload characterization for parallel systems are t o provide adequate representations of the programs and the associated data and to characterize the way in which these programs are submitted to the system (user interaction). In this work a systematic framework and a corresponding methodology for workload modeling of parallel sys tems is proposed. The corresponding methodology specifies the steps fo r constructing a workload model within this framework. To illustrate t he contribution of this approach, the framework is used as a workload model classification scheme and the methodology is applied in a case s tudy.