iSPD: An iconic-based modeling simulator for distributed grids

• Autor(a) principal: Manacero, Aleardo [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Lobato, Renata S. [UNESP], Oliveira, Paulo H. M. A. [UNESP], Garcia, Marco A. B. A. [UNESP], Guerra, Aldo I. [UNESP], Aoqui, Victor [UNESP], Menezes, Denison [UNESP], Silva, Diogo T. da [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2340000/2331756/a5-manacero.pdf; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/73775
• topic: Distributed systems; Grid simulation; Iconic modeling; Computational resources; Current simulators; Grid simulations; High performance computing; Intermediate model; Loss of efficiencies; Parallel and distributed systems; Computational efficiency; Computer systems; Simulators

Simulation of large and complex systems, such as computing grids, is a difficult task. Current simulators, despite providing accurate results, are significantly hard to use. They usually demand a strong knowledge of programming, what is not a standard pattern in today's users of grids and high performance computing. The need for computer expertise prevents these users from simulating how the environment will respond to their applications, what may imply in large loss of efficiency, wasting precious computational resources. In this paper we introduce iSPD, iconic Simulator of Parallel and Distributed Systems, which is a simulator where grid models are produced through an iconic interface. We describe the simulator and its intermediate model languages. Results presented here provide an insight in its easy-of-use and accuracy.