• DocumentCode
    2837166
  • Title

    Parallel and distributed supercomputing at Caltech

  • Author

    Messina, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Caltech Concurrent Supercomput. Facilities, Pasadena, CA, USA
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    Feb. 25 1991-March 1 1991
  • Firstpage
    64
  • Lastpage
    67
  • Abstract
    Caltech uses parallel computers for a variety of large-scale scientific applications. It has acquired commercial parallel computers, some of which have performance that rivals or exceeds that of conventional, vector-oriented supercomputers. A new project has been started that builds on experience with concurrent computers and attempts to apply Caltech methods to the simultaneous use of parallel and vector supercomputers at four institutions that will be connected by a 800 Mb/s wide-area computer network. Distributed supercomputing experiments will be carried out on this testbed.<>
  • Keywords
    distributed processing; parallel processing; Caltech; concurrent computers; distributed supercomputing; large-scale scientific applications; parallel computers; wide-area computer network; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Hypercubes; Large-scale systems; Machine learning; Postal services; Supercomputers; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Compcon Spring '91. Digest of Papers
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-2134-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CMPCON.1991.128784
  • Filename
    128784