L.F.W. Goes, Graduation Program in Electr. Eng., Minas Gerais Pontifical Catholic Univ., Belo Horizonte, Brazil
L.E.S. Ramos, Electron. Visualization Lab., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL, USA
C.A.P.S. Martins, Electron. Visualization Lab., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL, USA
We present the proposal and implementation of a Java-based parallel discrete-event simulation tool for cluster computing called ClusterSim (cluster simulation tool). The ClusterSim supports visual modeling and simulation of clusters and their workloads for performance analysis. A cluster is composed of single or multiprocessed nodes, parallel job schedulers, network topologies and technologies. A workload is represented by users that submit jobs composed of tasks described by probability' distributions and their internal structure (CPU, I/O and MPI instructions). Our main objectives in This work: to present the proposal and implementations of the software architecture and simulation model of ClusterSim; to verify and validate ClusterSim; to analyze ClusterSim by means of a case study. Our main contributions are: the proposal and implementation of ClusterSim with an hybrid workload model, a graphical environment, the modeling of heterogeneous clusters and a statistical and performance module.
Citation:
L.F.W. Goes, L.E.S. Ramos, C.A.P.S. Martins, "ClusterSim: a Java-based parallel discrete-event simulation tool for cluster computing," cluster, pp.401-410, Sixth IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER'04), 2004
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