NWO-P: Parallel Simulation of the Alewife Machine

Detailed simulation of a large-scale multiprocessor is a computationally intensive task. In fact, the computational requirements of such simulations are often large enough such that only moderate machine sizes (perhaps up to 64 processors) with a small amount of memory per node (one or two megabytes) can be tractably simulated on today’s fastest desktop workstations. Fortunately, the systems used for these types of simulation are often amenable to parallelization for execution on available multiprocessor systems; doing so can yield substantial performance improvements.