Title :
Design choices in the SHRIMP system: an empirical study
Author :
Blumrich, Matthias A. ; Alpert, R.D. ; Chen, Yuqun ; Clark, Douglas W. ; Damianakis, Stefanos N. ; Dubnicki, Cezary ; Felten, Edward W. ; Iftode, Liviu ; Li, Kai ; Martonosi, Margaret ; Shillne, Robert A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
fDate :
27 Jun-1 Jul 1998
Abstract :
The SHRIMP cluster-computing system has progressed to a point of relative maturity; a variety of applications are running on a 16-node system. We have enough experience to understand what we did right and wrong in designing and building the system. In this paper we discuss some of the lessons we learned about computer architecture, and about the challenges involved in building a significant working system in an academic research environment. We evaluate significant design choices by modifying the network interface firmware and the system software in order to empirically compare our design to other approaches
Keywords :
firmware; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; 16-node system; SHRIMP cluster-computing system; computer architecture; empirical study; network interface firmware; system software; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer science; Ear; Electrical capacitance tomography; Environmental economics; Hardware; Network interfaces; Protection; Software performance;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Architecture, 1998. Proceedings. The 25th Annual International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8491-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISCA.1998.694792
