Inteconnection Network Performance Assessment

One could use the software below to study the communication and synchronization performance of a processor interconnection network. One could thus establish the Bulk-Synchronous Parallel (BSP) model parameters for the underlying network/parallel hardware. The code is written in ANSI C and works under both BSPlib (a BSP specific library) and LAM-MPI (an implementation of MPI). If run on a particular machine, it generates enough information to allow someone to estimate the parameters L and g of the BSP model for that particular machine. Also included as a separate tar file is a (very simple) benchmarking program that does matrix multiplication.

  1. tars/as03v2.tar Latest version (June 2003). Untar file, read copyright notice in file copy, and then read file assess.txt.
  2. tars/as02a.tar Older version (July 2002). Untar file, read copyright notice in file copy, and then read file assess.txt.
  3. tars/asses02.tar Old version (April 2002). Untar file, read copyright notice in file copy, and then read file README (more information in assess.txt).
  4. tars/benseq03.tar Latest version (June 2003). Untar file, read copyright notice in file copy, and then read file assess.txt.
  5. tars/benseq02a.tar Older version (July 2002). Untar file, read copyright notice in file copy, and then read file assess.txt.
Last Update June 3, 2003