TY - JOUR
T1 - NAS experiences with a prototype cluster of workstations
AU - Castagnera, K.
AU - Cheng, D.
AU - Fatoohi, R.
AU - Hook, E.
AU - Kramer, B.
AU - Manning, C.
AU - Musch, J.
AU - Niggley, C.
AU - Saphir, W.
AU - Sheppard, D.
AU - Smith, M.
AU - Stockdale, I.
AU - Welch, S.
AU - Williams, R.
AU - Yip, D.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - This paper discusses the year-long activity at NAS to implement a large, loose cluster of workstations from the existing Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) pool of systems. Issues related to establishing a loosely coupled cluster of workstations are presented. Included are steps needed to resolve system management issues intended to provided reasonable cycle recovery from these systems without disrupting the primary systems users. Performance evaluation tests were run based on the NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) and other codes, including OVERFLOW-PVM, a full-fledged Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) application. This paper summarizes the activities related to the prototype cluster and identifies areas that need improvement, development, and research in order to make workstation clusters a viable computing environment for solving aeroscience problems.
AB - This paper discusses the year-long activity at NAS to implement a large, loose cluster of workstations from the existing Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) pool of systems. Issues related to establishing a loosely coupled cluster of workstations are presented. Included are steps needed to resolve system management issues intended to provided reasonable cycle recovery from these systems without disrupting the primary systems users. Performance evaluation tests were run based on the NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) and other codes, including OVERFLOW-PVM, a full-fledged Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) application. This paper summarizes the activities related to the prototype cluster and identifies areas that need improvement, development, and research in order to make workstation clusters a viable computing environment for solving aeroscience problems.
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U2 - 10.1145/602770.602842
DO - 10.1145/602770.602842
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0028734036
SN - 1063-9535
SP - 410
EP - 419
JO - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference
JF - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference
T2 - Proceedings of the 1994 Supercomputing Conference
Y2 - 14 November 1994 through 18 November 1994
ER -