Modeling and evaluation of a new cluster-based system for commercial applications

Author

Hahn, Woo-Jong ; Yoon, Suk-Han ; Lee, Kangwoo ; Dubois, Michel

Author_Institution

Process. Sect., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

1997

fDate

10-12 Dec 1997

Firstpage

177

Lastpage

184

Abstract

We model and evaluate a new parallel processing system for commercial applications, so called SPAX. SPAX cost-effectively overcomes the SMP limitation by providing both scalability of the parallel processing system and application portability of the SMP. To investigate whether the new architecture satisfies the requirements of commercial applications, such as OLTP, we have built the system and workload model. The results of the simulation show that the IO subsystem becomes the bottleneck before the newly developed system network. We find that SPAX can still meet the IO requirement of the OLTP workload as its network and IO node support the flexible IO subsystem, in terms of the number of disk drives and IO nodes versus that of processing nodes

Keywords

parallel architectures; parallel machines; performance evaluation; reconfigurable architectures; software portability; transaction processing; virtual machines; OLTP; SMP limitation; SPAX; application portability; bottleneck; cluster based system evaluation; commercial applications; cost effective; disk drives; input output subsystem; modeling; online transaction processing; parallel architecture; parallel processing system; scalability; simulation; Bandwidth; Computer applications; Concurrent computing; Databases; Disk drives; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Network servers; Parallel architectures; Parallel processing; Scalability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, 1997. ICAPP 97., 1997 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4229-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAPP.1997.651489

Filename

651489