Abstract
An analysis of an Alliant FX/8 system running Xylem (the operating system of the Cedar paralle superconducting experiment) is presented. Results for two distinct, real, scientific workloads executing on an Alliant FX/8 are discussed. A combination of user concurrency and system overhead measurements were taken for both workloads. Statistical cluster analysis is used to extract a state transition model to jointly characterize user concurrency and system overhead. A skewness factor is introduced and used to bring out the effects of unbalanced clustering when determining states with significant transitions.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 174-181 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing |
| Volume | 1 |
| State | Published - 1988 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Hardware and Architecture