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

fYear

1998

fDate

27 Jun-1 Jul 1998

Firstpage

330

Lastpage

341

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Architecture, 1998. Proceedings. The 25th Annual International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

1063-6897

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8491-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCA.1998.694792

Filename

694792