Title :
Distributed supercomputing
Author :
Marinescu, Dan C. ; Rice, John R. ; Waltsburger, B. ; Houstis, Catherine E. ; Kunz, Thomas ; Waldschmidt, Helmut
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
fDate :
30 Sep-2 Oct 1990
Abstract :
Several design issues for a distributed system capable of supporting high-performance scientific computing are discussed. Two systems prototypes, one based on an object-oriented implementation and a second supporting coscheduling, and their application to distributed partial differential equation (PDE) solvers are presented. The questions explored relate to the proper computation and communication paradigms and the architecture of such systems. The point of view is that in supercomputing the total execution time of an application is a critical performance measure of the system and scheduling policies need to reflect user´s needs rather be concerned only with requirements pertinent solely to resource utilization
Keywords :
distributed processing; parallel processing; partial differential equations; performance evaluation; communication paradigms; coscheduling; distributed partial differential equation; distributed supercomputing; distributed system; high-performance scientific computing; object-oriented implementation; performance measure; resource utilization; systems prototypes; Aggregates; Application software; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Engines; High performance computing; Prototypes; Scientific computing; Supercomputers; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1990. Proceedings., Second IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2088-9
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.1990.138350
