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Parallel Computing on PC Clusters — An Alternative to Supercomputers for Industrial Applications

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This paper summarizes the results that were obtained using the parallel 3D electric field simulation program POLOPT on a cluster of PCs connected via Fast Ethernet. With the high performance of the CPUs and interconnection technology, the results can be compared to those obtained on multiprocessor machines. Several practical high voltage engineering problems have been calculated. An outlook regarding further speedup due to the improvement of the interconnection technology is given.

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  1. Institut für Informatik Lehrstuhl für Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation (LRR), Technische Universität München (TUM), Arcisstr. 21, D-80333, München

    Michael Eberl, Wolfgang Karl & Carsten Trinitis

  2. Asea Brown Boveri Corporate Research Center, Speyerer Str. 4, D-69115, Heidelberg, Germany

    Andreas Blaszczyk

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  1. OakRidge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee, 107, Ayres Hall, Knoxville, TN, 37996-1301, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  2. Computer Science Department Computer Architecture and Operating Systems Group, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, E-08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

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Eberl, M., Karl, W., Trinitis, C., Blaszczyk, A. (1999). Parallel Computing on PC Clusters — An Alternative to Supercomputers for Industrial Applications. In: Dongarra, J., Luque, E., Margalef, T. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1697. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48158-3_61

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