01429naa a2200145 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000200006024500510008026000090013130000150014052008690015570000160102477302430104010028442007-08-16       1995    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aKITAJIMA, J. P.  aANDESba tool for evaluating parallel systems.  c1995  ap.367-381.  aThis paper presents the ANDES environment, a tool for supporting the performance evaluation of parallel systems. ANDES is structured as a modular tool. The parallel program, the parallel computer and the strategies used for implementing the sofftware on the hardware are described separately. The interaction among modules occur when using ANDES. This environment is employed during the early phases of the software or hardware design. The evaluation technique currently adopted is based on the execution of synthetic workloads. However, ANDES can be used with other techniques that are compatible with the information described inside each module. A first prototype of the tool is running on a transputer network. A more recent version runs on a computer network   supporting PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine). ANDES was used to compare different mapping algorithms.1 aPLATEAU, B.  tIn: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE ARQUITETURA DE COMPUTADORES - PROCESSAMENTO DE ALTO DESEMPENHO, 7.; CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DA SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE COMPUTAÇÃO, 15., 1995, Canela. Anais... Porto Alegre: UFRGS, Instituto de Informática,1995.