BigNetSim is an effort to simulate large current and future computer
systems to study the behavior of applications developed for those systems.
BigNetSim could be used to study
new types of interconnection topologies and routing algorithms
along with different types of switching architecture.
application performance on different machines. This uses the API
provided in Section 5 to run the application on some number
of processors on some machine and generate (dump) all events (entry
method executions or message send/recv). BigNetSim is used to
model the machine that needs to be studied for this application and
these logs are then fed into this simulation, and it predicts the
performance of this application.
So, the two important uses are studying interconnection networks and
performance prediction for applications.
