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1、AnAnalyticalModelforaClassofArchitecturesunderMaster-SlaveParadigmYaseminYalcnkayaandTrondSteihaugUniversityofBergenDepartmentofInformaticsBergen,NorwayAbstract.Webuildananalyticalmodelforanapplicationutilizingmaster-slaveparadigm.Inthemodel,onlythreearchitectureparametersareused:late
2、ncy,bandwidthandfloprate.Insteadofusingthevendorsuppliedorexperimentallydeterminedvalues,theseparametersarees-timatedusingtheanalyticalmodelitself.ExperimentalresultsonCrayT3EandSGIOrigin2000indicatethatthissimplemodelcangivefairpredictions.Whilebuildingaperformancemodel,itiscrucialtocat
3、chthemainfactorsofbe-havioroftheprograminquestion.Thesefactorsaretheparallelizationstrategyused,theamountofcommunicationandcomputation,andthearchitectureoftheparallelcomputer.Thesoftwareemployedcombinedwiththechosenmessagepassingparadigmplaysasignicantroleintheeectivevaluesofthearchit
4、ec-tureparameters.Apromisingapproachistobuildasimpliedmodelforareal"applicationonatargetarchitecture.Thepurposeofthispaperistobuildanana-lyticalmodeltopredictthebehaviorofiterativenumericalalgorithmsonaclassofarchitecturesusingmaster-slaveparadigm.Underthemaster-slaveparadigm,theexecu
5、tionoftheparallelprogramcanbeseenasasequenceofparallelandpurelysequentialphases.Intheparallelphasetheslavescomputeconcurrentlyandinthesequentialphaseonlythemasterdoescomputation.Betweenthesephasesthereiscommunicationbetweenthemasterandslaveseitherinformofsinglenodebroadcastfromthemaster
6、,orsinglesendsandreceivesbetweenthemasterandanyoneoftheslaves.Wearegoingtoanalyzeoneofmanypossibleparallelprogramsunderthisparadigmtoshowthatincertaincases,itispossi-bletoquantifytheinfluenceofthefactorsmentionedaboveontheperformance,andasmallnumberofarchitectureparameterscanbedenedtobe
7、usedinananalyticalmodel.Inordertoestimatethearchitectureparametersandtheirinteractionswewillmakesomeassumptions.TheiterativealgorithmusedintheanalysisisablockJacobialgorithmforthesolutionoflinearleastsquaresproblemsoutlinedbyDennisandSteihaug[2].Oneimportantaspectofthisalgorith
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