The Blind Men and the Elephant

Arvind Krishnamurthy, Jeanna Neefe, and Randy Wang
{arvindk,neefe,rywang}@cs.berkeley.edu

A parallel program, much like an elephant, is the organic union of many complex parts. The Splash-2 paper, much like the blind men in the classic Indian parable, attempts to picture a complex object by studying its bits and pieces in isolation. We show in this mini-project (postscript), that much like their ancient blind predecessors, blanket statements made from a few poorly chosen metrics tend to miss the whole picture and does little to help the poor architect decide what machine to build to satisfy the needs of these applications.


o Introduction
o Concurrency and Load Balance
o Communication Behavior
o Analytical Model for Performance

Randy Wang    rywang.public@gmail.com    Sun Mar 19 22:18:59 PST 1995