Charm++ parallel programming system

[gaurav khanna <khannag AT cse.ohio-state.edu>]

Hi,

I needed a simulator which allow me to simulate parallel codes on regular
topologies like torus with an accurate model of interconnection network
and contention. From my understanding, I think BigSim and BigNetSim is
something that can help me do that.

I tried to compile charm++ as follows.

./build bigsim mpi-linux bigsim -O

I get the following error.
Error> option: bigsim is not supported in this version!
Supported compilers: cmpi cmpigcc cxx gcc gcc3 icc iccstatic kcc pgcc xlc
xlc64
Supported options: bluegene elan gm gm2 ifort lcs mpt ooc papi pgf90
pthreads scyld smp vmi

Does charm5.9 does not support BigSim? How can I fix this one.

My objective is to collect performance characteristics like the total
amount of communication on each network link, # messages sent/recieved
etc. I think your tool BigNetSim looks very appropriate to do such a
thing except that I will need to make changes to the code to allow me to
collect communication performance characteristics. If its not too much
of an effort for you, could you point me to places in code where this can
be done.

Regards
Gaurav

Gaurav Khanna
Phd Student
CSE Department,OSU

Phone (office):614-292-7036