Workstation Cluster Computation from the Perspective of the User (1994)
| Venue: | Institut fur Informatik, Universitat Zurich |
| Citations: | 3 - 0 self |
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@TECHREPORT{Cap94workstationcluster,
author = {Clemens H. Cap},
title = {Workstation Cluster Computation from the Perspective of the User},
institution = {Institut fur Informatik, Universitat Zurich},
year = {1994}
}
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Abstract
. The use of workstation clusters for solving demanding application problems has widely been adopted. This paper analyses structural aspects which influence the performance of algorithms on such "hypercomputers". Two structurally very different examples help estimating the reasonable range of quantitative measures. An overview on organizational and infrastructural requirements answers the question who and where clusters presently may be used successfully. The paper concludes with recent trends and future developments. 1 Introduction The typical RISC workstation has 20--200 MIPS and 1--20 MFLOPS processor performance, 16--128 MB main memory, 0.5--5 GB disc capacity and 1--5 MB/s bandwidth for disc I/O. It runs a UNIX flavored operating system and costs from 5.000$ to 100.000$. Presently employed communication technology is the ethernet, with faster media just being introduced to the market. Today's RISC workstations therefore are able to cope with problems which eight years ago could ...
