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Re: [charm] [ppl] Charm++ and Bigsim


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  • From: Balaji S <balaji.ceg.13 AT gmail.com>
  • To: charm AT cs.uiuc.edu
  • Cc: cmendes AT illinois.edu
  • Subject: Re: [charm] [ppl] Charm++ and Bigsim
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:40:58 -0500
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  • List-id: CHARM parallel programming system <charm.cs.uiuc.edu>

Hi sir,
        Thanks for the prompt reply. But my doubt is, when i run the example program "nqueens" with "./pgm 12 6 +p4"
and "./pgm 12 6 +p8" I get different runtime , but i have "intel i3 processor running on 64 bit ubuntu 10.04", if +p is real
processors, how i ll get different answers for +p4 and +p8 ( since i don hav even 4 cores/processors) ?

Regards,
Balaji Sekar

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Celso L. Mendes <cmendes AT illinois.edu> wrote:
The "+p" parameter indicates the number of physical (i.e. real)
processors where the program will be running.

There is another parameter, "+vp", which indicates the number
of virtual processors. Thus, you can run, say, with "+p 8 +vp 128"
where each physical processor will be in charge of 16 virtual
processors.

BigSim explores this capability to simulate future machines.
Each virtual processor assumes the role of a target processor
of the future machine. In the example above, you would be using
a current machine with 8 existing processors to simulate a future
machine with 128 processors.

-Celso



On 1/10/2012 11:30 AM, Balaji S wrote:
Hi ,

I am new to charm++. I have read that bigsim is used to simulate more number of processors,
When in charm++, u can specify the option (as a commandline argument ) +p8 or +p32 to indicate
number of processors, what is need for a separate simulator like bigsim?

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With Regards,
Balaji.S



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