Performance Oriented Specification for Heterogenous Parallel Systems Using Graphical Based Specifications

TitlePerformance Oriented Specification for Heterogenous Parallel Systems Using Graphical Based Specifications
Publication TypeTechnical Report
Year of Publication1995
AuthorsUnger, H., & Daene B.
Other Numbers983
Abstract

Today, multiprocessor systems can be used even for the solution of small problems. In contrast to this advantage in the development of hardware solutions there are only a few methods to specify and to generate efficient parallel programs especially in the area of heterogenous systems.In the report we intend to show that Petri Nets are a suitable description language for doing so. An important point in this favour is that Petri Nets can represent both aspects influencing the quality of a solution in an uniform model: the software and the hardware on which the generated program will be executed. In that way the executable program can be derived by compiling the corresponding part of the model. Therefore powerful transformations of a given Petri Net are required in an iteration process. That's why a classification about such transformations is given in the main part of our contribution, furthermore an new one will be introduced. Because run time input data strongly influence the performance a possibility of a dynamic implementation arising from such a transformation will be discussed too.

URLhttp://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ftp/global/pub/techreports/1995/tr-95-043.pdf
Bibliographic Notes

ICSI Technical Report TR-95-043

Abbreviated Authors

H. Unger and B. Daene

ICSI Publication Type

Technical Report