Reminder
> *****Apologies for Crosspostings*****
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> WEDNESDAY SEMINAR SERIES
> CAVENDISH SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
> UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
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> WEDNESDAY 20 OCTOBER 1999 at 4 pm
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> Room NCS 4.26, 115 New Cavendish Street, London
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> AN ENVIRONMENT FOR THE DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE
> EVALUATION OF PORTABLE PARALLEL SOFTWARE
> by Jamal Zemerly
> Centre for Parallel Computing, U. of Westminster
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> Abstract:
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> A major obstacle to the widespread adoption of parallel computing
> in industry is the difficulty in program development due mainly
> to lack of parallel programming design tools. In particular,
> there is a need for performance-oriented tools, and especially
> for clusters of heterogeneous workstations, to allow the software
> designer to choose between design alternatives such as different
> parallelisation strategies or paradigms.
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> An environment for performance-oriented design of portable
> parallel software which has been developed at the Centre for
> Parallel Computing, University of Westminster will be described.
> The environment consists of a graphical design tool based on the
> PVM communication library for building parallel algorithms,
> a state-of-the-art simulation engine, a cpu characterisation tool,
> a distributed debugging tool and a visualisation/animation tool.
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> The environment is used to model a virtual machine composed of
> a cluster of workstations interconnected by a local area network.
> The simulation model used is modular and its components are
> interchangeable which allows easy re-configuration of the platform.
> Preliminary experiments on a number of case studies showed
> an average error between the real and the simulated results of
> less than 10%. Future directions include developing an abstract
> communication layer and a "design assistant" tool based on
> "intelligent" performance analysis.
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> Staff and students interested in research are welcome
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> Refreshments will be served after the talks.
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> Any question? Contact
> Thierry Chaussalet ([log in to unmask])
> or Jamal Zemerly ([log in to unmask])
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> Thierry C. and Jamal Z.
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> Dr. T. Chaussalet
> Cavendish School of Computer Science
> University of Westminster
> 115 New Cavendish St.
> London W1M 8JS, UK
> Tel: +44 (0) 171 911 5000 ext. 3647
> Fax: +44 (0) 171 911 5089
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> WWW: http://www.cscs.wmin.ac.uk/~chausst
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