Simulating Whole Supercomputer Applications

Detailed simulations of large scale message-passing interface parallel applications are extremely time consuming and resource intensive. A new methodology that combines signal processing and data mining techniques plus a multilevel simulation reduces the simulated data by various orders of magnitude. This reduction makes possible detailed software performance analysis and accurate performance predictions in a reasonable time.

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