[Beowulf] Simulation for clusters performance

Alexandre Ferreira Ramos alex.ramos at usp.br
Tue Jan 8 13:43:08 PST 2019


Thank you very much. Indeed, I believe that a comparative study among the
different simulators would be nice to perform.

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 3:55 PM Dave Love <dave.love at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> Scott Atchley <e.scott.atchley at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > You may also want to look at Sandia's Structural Simulation Toolkit
> > <https://sst.sandia.gov> and Argonne's CODES
> > <https://www.mcs.anl.gov/projects/codes/>.
>
> And maybe smpi from SimGrid <http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/>, if you
> can get or synthesize calibration data.  The MPI (or its tuning) may be
> rather important compared with the fabric, and is rarely properly
> reported in benchmark results ☹.  SimGrid, at least, can use different
> collective algorithms; I don't know about the alternatives, or to what
> extent these can model offloading and the various routing schemes in
> use.  A comparison would be interesting if anyone has one.
>
> <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7877012> has results for different
> topologies and concludes that there's no generally best network.
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