Title :
The Multicomputer Technology Initiative at UCT
Author :
Gebhardt, M. ; Inggs, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
fDate :
6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The Radar Remote Sensing Group at the University of Cape Town is investigating the use of a distributed cluster of off-the-shelf PCs for parallel computing applications. The use of off-the-shelf components overcomes many of the problems traditionally associated with parallel computing, such as lack of scalability, vendor specific technologies and high cost. This paper presents some details of the hardware and software infrastructure being used in the research and some preliminary results achieved with the system
Keywords :
message passing; parallel architectures; software architecture; workstation clusters; Multicomputer Technology Initiative; UCT; University of Cape Town; cost; hardware infrastructure; off-the-shelf computer; parallel computing; personal computer cluster; scalability; software infrastructure; Application software; Availability; Cities and towns; Clustering algorithms; Laboratories; Message passing; Parallel processing; Personal communication networks; Radar remote sensing; Virtual machining;
Conference_Titel :
Africon, 1999 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5546-6
DOI :
10.1109/AFRCON.1999.820982
