Dingxing Wang, Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Weimin Zheng, Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Jianxin Xiong, Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Cluster of Workstations is becoming an important kind of parallel computing platform. Two issues are essential for promoting the popularization of COW: high-performance communication mechanism and powerful programming environment. In this paper we present our research work on COW, which aims at giving a practical solution to the above issues. In order to build a high performance communication system, we design a reduced communication protocol in addition to making use of high-speed network hardware. Based on PVM, we implement a practical programming environment which include parallel compiling systems, parallel debugger, load balancing tool and execution fault recovery tool. Some performance results are given in this paper.
Index Terms:
parallel programming; cluster of workstations; COW; high-performance communication; programming environment; reduced communication protocol; PVM; parallel compiling systems; parallel debugger; load balancing; execution fault recovery tool
Citation:
Dingxing Wang, Weimin Zheng, Jianxin Xiong, "Research on cluster of workstations," ispan, pp.275, 1997 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (ISPAN '97), 1997