Title :
MPPs and clusters for scalable computing
Author :
Xu, Zhiwei ; Hwang, Kai
Author_Institution :
Nat. Center for Intelligent Comput., Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China
Abstract :
This article assess the state-of-the-art technology in massively parallel processors (MPPs) and clusters of workstations (COWs) for scalable parallel computing. We evaluate the IBM SP2, the Intel Paragon, the Cray T3D/T3E, and the ASCI TeraFLOPS system recently proposed by Intel. The concept of scalability is characterized from several orthogonal dimensions. Scalable performance attributes are discussed in the context of a newly proposed parallel computer model
Keywords :
parallel architectures; performance evaluation; reconfigurable architectures; ASCI TeraFLOPS; Cray T3D/T3E; IBM SP2; Intel; Intel Paragon; MPPs; clusters of workstations; massively parallel processors; performance attributes; scalability; scalable computing; scalable parallel computing; Application software; Concurrent computing; Cows; Hardware; Open source software; Radar signal processing; Scalability; Signal processing; Vector processors; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks, 1996. Proceedings., Second International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7460-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISPAN.1996.508970
