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The structural simulation toolkit

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A. F. Rodrigues,

E. Cooper-Balis,

B. JacobAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 38, Issue 4

Pages 37 - 42

https://doi.org/10.1145/1964218.1964225

Published: 29 March 2011 Publication History

Abstract

As supercomputers grow, understanding their behavior and performance has become increasingly challenging. New hurdles in scalability, programmability, power consumption, reliability, cost, and cooling are emerging, along with new technologies such as 3D integration, GP-GPUs, silicon-photonics, and other "game changers". Currently, they HPC community lacks a unified toolset to evaluate these technologies and design for these challenges.

To address this problem, a number of institutions have joined together to create the Structural Simulation Toolkit (SST), an open, modular, parallel, multi-criteria, multi-scale simulation framework. The SST includes a number of processor, memory, and network models. The SST has been used in a variety of network, memory, and application studies and aims to become the standard simulation framework for designing and procuring HPC systems.

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Index Terms

The structural simulation toolkit
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation support systems
    2. Simulation types and techniques
2. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Performance

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ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Volume 38, Issue 4

Special issue on the 1st international workshop on performance modeling, benchmarking and simulation of high performance computing systems (PMBS 10)

March 2011

93 pages

ISSN:0163-5999

DOI:10.1145/1964218

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