Title
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DimSim - Dimensioning Through Simulation with SimGrid
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Reference
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CNRS PICS 5473
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Duration
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2010-2012
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Funding
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19,000 euros
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Participants
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Henri Casanova (University of Hawai`i, at Manoa. Co-PI)
Pierre Nicolas Clauss (Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy I)
Frédéric Desprez (INRIA, ENS Lyon)
George Markomanolis (INRIA, ENS Lyon)
Mark Stilwell (University of Hawai`i, at Manoa)
Frédéric Suter (Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3/CNRS, Co-PI)
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Objectives
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More and more sciences rely on computing
infrastructures to produce scientific results from
large amounts of data. Then Data- and Computing-
constantly have to upgrade their resources to keep
pace with the increasing demands. The common
practice is to rely on the expertise of system
administrators and/or users to take empirical
decisions about what should be the next upgrade. A
sound alternative is to resort to simulation to
obtain objective indicators on candidate
solutions. In this project we focus on parallel
MPI applications as a reprensative workload. We
aim at evaluating, comparing, solidying, and
integrating within a single framework two
complementary approaches:
- Off-line simulation, in which a trace
of an instrumented execution is then replayed in a
simulation context. We proposed and developed a
Time-Independent Trace Replay Framework that
follows this approach.
- On-line simulation, in which the actual
execution is executed while parts of it are
intercepted and simulated. We proposed and develop
the SMPI simulator that allows the user to
simulate the execution of unmodified MPI
applications on a single node.
Both developments have been integrated with
the SimGrid
toolkit.
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Publications
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Journal paper: Henri Casanova, Frédéric Desprez, George
Markomanolis, and Frédéric Suter. Simulation of MPI
Applications with Time-Independent Traces. In
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2014.
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Conference paper: Paul Bédaride, Augustin Degomme,
Stéphane Genaud, Arnaud Legrand, Georges Markomanolis, Martin Quinson,
Mark Stillwell, Frédéric Suter and Brice Videau. Toward Better
Simulation of MPI Applications on Ethernet/TCP Networks. In
the 4th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking
and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS),
Denver, CO, Nov 2013.
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Conference paper:
Frédéric Desprez, George Markomanolis and Frédéric Suter.
Improving the Accuracy and Efficiency of Time-Independent
Trace Replay. In the 3rd International Workshop
on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High
Performance Computer Systems (PMBS), Salt Lake City, UT,
Nov 2012.
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Conference paper:
Frédéric Desprez, George S. Markomanolis, Martin Quinson and Frédéric Suter.
Assessing the Performance of MPI Applications Through Time-Independent Trace Replay.
In Second International Workshop on Parallel Software
Tools and Tool Infrastructures (PSTI), Taipei, Taiwan, Sep 2011.
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Conference paper:
Pierre-Nicolas Clauss, Mark Stillwell, Stéphane Genaud, Frédéric Suter, Henri Casanova and Martin Quinson
Single Node On-Line Simulation of MPI Applications with SMPI.
In 25th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS),
Anchorage, Alaska, May 2011.
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Technical report:
George S. Markomanolis and Frédéric Suter.
Time-Independent Trace Acquisition Framework -- A
Grid'5000 How-to. Technical Report RT-0407,
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
Automatique (INRIA), April 2011.
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