Studying the behavior of classical parallel algorithms with message passing

Includes bibliographical references (pages 64-65)In this thesis, we propose a distributed memory parallel computer-testing tool called the sandbox. The evaluation of parallel programs runs in the controlled environment with cloud computing instances, where a single instance is used to monitor and control all the instances of the sandbox. This allows the development of applications and teaching of parallel programming without the expenses of supercomputing resources. We use a standard message passing system, a reliable java network application, so that when desired the can be run on a truly parallel system without any changes. Several features in the sandbox do not exist in other simulation system. Support for multi-tasking more processes than processors can be done, allowing the evaluation of load balancing schemes