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Supercomputing for the Masses: A Parallel Macintosh Cluster

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We have constructed a parallel cluster consisting of a mixture of Apple Macintosh G3 and G4 computers running the Mac OS, and have achieved very good performance on numerically intensive, parallel plasma particle-in-cell simulations. A subset of the MPI message-passing library was implemented in Fortran77 and C. This library enabled us to port code, without modification, from other parallel processors to the Macintosh cluster. Unlike Unix-based clusters, no special expertise in operating systems is required to build and run the cluster. This enables us to move parallel computing from the realm of experts to the main stream of computing.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1547, USA

    Viktor K. Decyk

  2. Dauger Research, Huntington Beach, CA, USA

    Dean E. Dauger

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  1. Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Czestochowa, Dabrowskiego 73, 42-200, Czestochowa, Poland

    Roman Wyrzykowski

  2. Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, 122 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN, 37996-3450, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  3. Computer Science Department, Oklahoma State University, 700 N. Greenwood Ave., Tulsa, OK, 74106, USA

    Marcin Paprzycki

  4. DTU, UNI-C, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education, Bldg. 304, 2800, Lyngby, Denmark

    Jerzy Waśniewski

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Decyk, V.K., Dauger, D.E. (2002). Supercomputing for the Masses: A Parallel Macintosh Cluster. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Paprzycki, M., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2328. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48086-2_2

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