Specification and Analysis of Parallel Machine Architecture

Abstract

The objective of this research was to develop an environment in which a software application, target hardware architecture, and resource allocation strategy can be defined, simulated and evaluated. The motivation for this research was to provide ISC, particularly ISSC, methods for testing the performance of a given application or set of applications on a set of candidate host computers. The tools designed under this project can be used to evaluate the performance of large Ada programs running on POSIX compliant operating systems, as well as less conventional computer architectures. The first year results reported herein include a survey of existing methods/tools and the design of software and parallel architecture representation language. Based on the survey, the Berkeley Requirements Statement Language (BRSL) was extended making it suitable for the high level specification and analysis for both software and hardware of parallel machine architecture.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 17, 1990
Accession Number
ADA236544

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  • C. V. Ramamoorthy

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  • University of California, Berkeley

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