Grant NSF NGS 0103645 (PetaFLOPs/BlueGene)

Project Title:

Performance Modeling and Programming Environments for PetaFlop Computers and the Blue Gene Machine

Principal Investigator(s):

Laxmikant V. Kale - P.I. (Univ. Illinois, Parallel Programming Lab.)
David Padua - Co-P.I. (Univ. Illinois)
Sarita Adve - Co-P.I. (Univ. Illinois)
Philippe Geubelle - Co-P.I. (Univ. Illinois)

Project Period:

Starting Date: September 15th, 2001
Ending Date: February 28th, 2006

Documentation:

Project Proposal

Project Summary:

The objective of this research is to develop performance simulation capabilities to allow system level analysis and prediction of performance of the next generation complex PetaFlop machines that include multiple levels of memory hierarchy and interconnects. The performance simulator developed in this project is used to test parallel data structures and algorithms implemented in programming environments used in these machines, as well as frameworks to enable the development of applications for these machine classes. A number of important applications are used to test and validate the CS technology advances.

Project Publications:

A list of all publicationsi produced in this project can be found in this document

Software Products:

Information about the emulation software, and instructions for downloading, are available here
Enhancements to the Charm++ distribution, including all the simulations tools that we developed, are available here