The Hector distributed run-time environment

Author

Russ, Samuel H. ; Robinson, Jonathan ; Flachs, Brian K. ; Heckel, Bjorn

Author_Institution

Eng. Res. Center, Mississippi State Univ., MS, USA

Volume

9

Issue

11

fYear

1998

fDate

11/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1102

Lastpage

1114

Abstract

Harnessing the computational capabilities of a network of workstations promises to off-load work from overloaded supercomputers onto largely idle resources overnight. Several capabilities are needed to do this, including support for an architecture-independent parallel programming environment, task migration, automatic resource allocation, and fault tolerance. The Hector distributed run-time environment is designed to present these capabilities transparently to programmers. MPI programs can be run under this environment on homogeneous clusters with no modifications to their source code needed. The design of Hector, its internal structure, and several benchmarks and tests are presented

Keywords

fault tolerant computing; parallel programming; programming environments; resource allocation; Hector distributed run-time environment; MPI programs; architecture-independent parallel programming environment; automatic resource allocation; benchmarks; fault tolerance; network of workstations; task migration; Availability; Computer networks; Fault tolerance; Load management; Parallel programming; Programming profession; Resource management; Runtime environment; Supercomputers; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1045-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/71.735957

Filename

735957