X-Git-Url: https://bilbo.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/and/gitweb/hpcc2014.git/blobdiff_plain/b69bcefdfa54757425b8e8ffd4a807d02d1225c1..a6f49b2fbc6ccf037f7358f1e306f275576518fd:/hpcc.tex diff --git a/hpcc.tex b/hpcc.tex index 306cf68..dc83bb4 100644 --- a/hpcc.tex +++ b/hpcc.tex @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ suggests, these algorithms solve a given problem by successive iterations ($X_{n $X_{0}$ to find an approximate value $X^*$ of the solution with a very low residual error. Several well-known methods demonstrate the convergence of these algorithms~\cite{BT89,Bahi07}. -Parallelization of such algorithms generally involve the division of the problem +Parallelization of such algorithms generally involves the division of the problem into several \emph{blocks} that will be solved in parallel on multiple processing units. The latter will communicate each intermediate results before a new iteration starts and until the approximate solution is reached. These @@ -228,13 +228,13 @@ In the context of asynchronous algorithms, the number of iterations to reach the convergence depends on the delay of messages. With synchronous iterations, the number of iterations is exactly the same than in the sequential mode (if the parallelization process does not change the algorithm). So the difficulty with -asynchronous iteratie algorithms comes from the fact it is necessary to run the algorithm +asynchronous iterative algorithms comes from the fact it is necessary to run the algorithm with real data. In fact, from an execution to another the order of messages will change and the number of iterations to reach the convergence will also change. According to all the parameters of the platform (number of nodes, power of -nodes, inter and intra clusrters bandwith and latency, ....) and of the -algorithm (number of splitting with the multisplitting algorithm), the -multisplitting code will obtain the solution more or less quickly. Or course, +nodes, inter and intra clusrters bandwith and latency, etc.) and of the +algorithm (number of splittings with the multisplitting algorithm), the +multisplitting code will obtain the solution more or less quickly. Of course, the GMRES method also depends of the same parameters. As it is difficult to have access to many clusters, grids or supercomputers with many different network parameters, it is interesting to be able to simulate the behaviors of @@ -251,8 +251,8 @@ SimGrid~\cite{SimGrid,casanova+legrand+quinson.2008.simgrid} is a simulation framework to study the behavior of large-scale distributed systems. As its name says, it emanates from the grid computing community, but is nowadays used to study grids, clouds, HPC or peer-to-peer systems. The early versions of SimGrid -date from 1999, but it's still actively developed and distributed as an open -source software. Today, it's one of the major generic tools in the field of +date from 1999, but it is still actively developed and distributed as an open +source software. Today, it is one of the major generic tools in the field of simulation for large-scale distributed systems. SimGrid provides several programming interfaces: MSG to simulate Concurrent