Performance Evaluation for Data Flow Architectures: A Summary of Discussions from the Santa Fe Workshop.

摘要

This paper summarizes approximately four hours of discussion held at the Santa Fe Workshop on Parallel Architecture Evaluation. The general topic of the discussion centered on performance evaluation techniques and measurement tools appropriate for data flow computers. In this paper, as much of the discussion as possible has been extracted and organized in a form that is clearer for readers to follow. The paper contains four major sections. The first section gives some very brief background information on data flow computing to provide a framework for the topics that follow. The second section examines several major implications that the data flow architecture approach has on the issue of performance measurement and evaluation. The third section identifies the primary measurement objectives that the discussion group listed as being important to study. The fourth section presents tools the group highlighted as possible techniques for getting to the important measurements. 2 refs., 1 fig. (ERA citation 14:026183)