Performance analysis of parallel processing in local area network

Author

Foo, Y.W. ; Chong, Y.K.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Inst., Singapore

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

9-12 Sep 1997

Firstpage

1466

Abstract

Parallel computers can take many different architectural forms. One cost effective and convenient means to acquire parallel processing is via a network of computers. Today´s high-speed Local Area Network (LAN) interconnecting islands of general-purpose workstations results in vast computational power potentially available on the network. The utilisation of these networked workstations as an inexpensive parallel processing platform is realistic. There is a need to understand the behaviour of parallel processing in a LAN environment especially its performance under different LAN traffic patterns. Of particular interest are how different frame sizes interpacket spacing times and network utilisation impact the performance of LAN-based parallel processing. This paper attempts to discuss all the above issues and presents the results obtained under different simulated network traffic patterns

Keywords

local area networks; parallel processing; performance evaluation; computational power; general-purpose workstations; local area network; networked workstations; parallel processing; performance analysis; simulated network traffic patterns; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Costs; LAN interconnection; Local area networks; Parallel processing; Performance analysis; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 1997. ICICS., Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3676-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICS.1997.652235

Filename

652235