Educational and research systems for evaluating the efficiency of parallel computations

Abstract

In this paper we consider the educational and research systems that can be used to estimate the efficiency of parallel computing. ParaLab allows parallel computation methods to be studies. With the ParaLib library, we can compare the parallel programming languages and technologies. The Globalizer Lab system is capable of estimating the efficiency of algorithms for solving computationally intensive global optimization problems. These systems can build models of various high-performance systems, formulate the problems to be solved, perform computational experiments in the simulation mode and analyze the results. The crucial matter is that the described systems support a visual representation of the parallel computation process. If combined, these systems can be useful for developing high-performance parallel programs which take the specific features of modern supercomputing systems into account.