Canal-U

Simulation of HPC systems part 2

The first part of the tutorial will present and contrast current experimental methodologies, giving attendees in-depth understanding of the scientific and technological issues at hand.

The second part of the tutorial will focus on simulation, giving a state of the art of current simulation technology and discussing challenges for the development of sound simulation models. The tutorial will use the SimGrid simulation framework as an exemplar since it implements sophisticated and validated simulation models.

The last part of the tutorial will be a hands-on and focus on an in-depth presentation how SMPI can be used to predict the performance of MPI codes.

By the end of this tutorial attendees should have a clear understanding of current technology and best practice for experimental parallel large-scale distributed computing research, and in particular on the use of simulation.