Modeling Hardware-Software Interactions in Parallel and Distributed Systems Using Stochastic High Level Petri Nets.

摘要

The ability to model the iteration between the hardware and the software components of a system is extremely useful in distributed system design, real-time system analysis, parallel algorithm design and several other significant areas of research. Non-deterministic performance analysis of such interactions carried out using simulation methods, queueing analysis or hybrid methods, becomes prohibitively expensive for systems of any practical interest. Keywords: Parallel systems; Modeling; Petri nets; Hardware / software interaction; Reprints. (jhd)