Seminar Announcement

Elizabeth Simon

University of San Diego

"Performance Prediction and Optimization Using the SDSC PMaC Framework"

Date: Friday, October 15, 2004
Time: 10:00 am.
Place: Building 451, Room 1025 (White Room)
P Clearance / Unclassified
Contact: John May ((925) 423-8102) or Leslie Bills ((925) 423-8927)

Sponsored by: ISCR and CASC.

In this talk I will discuss the MetaSim Framework developed by the Performance Modeling and Characterization Lab at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. This framework has been used to make cross-platform performance predictions for large-scale parallel applications. The MetaSim Framework is broken into 2 main components - a single processor prediction component and a communication prediction component. Each of these is created from the convolution of 2 independent pieces -- a machine profile and an application signature. A current focus of research is how to improve accuracy and reliability of the application signature for use in processor performance prediction. I'll discuss current work investigating SimPoint for this purpose.

Email: beth.simon@gmail.com

Speaker's web page: http://home.sandiego.edu/~bsimon/

Institution web page: http://www.sandiego.edu/