SIMULATION-BASED PERFORMABILITY ANALYSIS OF MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS

Abstract

The primary focus in the analysis of multiprocessor systems has traditionally been on their performance. However, their large number of components, their complex network topologies, and sophisticated system software can make them very unreliable. The dependability of a computing system ought to be considered in an early stage of its development in order to take influence on the system architecture and to achieve best performance with high dependability. In this paper a simulation-based method for the combined performance and dependability analysis of fault tolerant multiprocessor systems are presented which provide meaningful results already during the design phase.