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Clusters of PCs are an attractive platform for parallel applications because of their cost effectiveness. We have implemented an interoperable runtime system called Converse on a cluster of Linux PCs connected by an inexpensive switched Fast Ethernet. This paper presents our implementation and its performance evaluation. We consider the question of the performance impact of using inexpensive communication hardware on real applications, using a large production-quality molecular dynamics program, NAMD, that runs on this cluster.
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH PHS 5 P41 RR05969-04) and the National Science Foundation (NSF/GCAG BIR 93-18159 and NSF BIR 94-23827 EQ). James Phillips was supported by a Computational Science Graduate Fellowship from the United States Department of Energy.
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Kałé, L., Brunner, R., Phillips, J., Varadarajan, K. (1999). Application performance of a linux cluster using converse. In: Rolim, J., et al. Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPPS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1586. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0097933
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