DocumentCode
2619427
Title
Scaling of Beowulf-class distributed systems
Author
Salmon, John ; Sterling, Thomas ; Bordawekar, Rajesh ; Stein, Christopher
fYear
1998
fDate
28-31 Jul 1998
Firstpage
368
Lastpage
369
Abstract
The future of Beowulf-class PC clusters for large-scale scientific and engineering applications will be determined by three issues: system scalability; latency tolerant applications development; and software environments and tools. This paper focuses on the first of these, scalability, which is sensitive to aspects of the remaining two. For the studies and findings described, we consider system designs capable of integrating hundreds or thousands of processors
Keywords
engineering computing; local area networks; natural sciences computing; reconfigurable architectures; Beowulf-class distributed systems; PC clusters; engineering applications; latency tolerant applications development; scientific applications; software tools; system designs; system scalability; system scaling; Application software; Bandwidth; Communication switching; Costs; Delay; Ethernet networks; Routing; Scalability; Switches; Testing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
High Performance Distributed Computing, 1998. Proceedings. The Seventh International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Chicago, IL
ISSN
1082-8907
Print_ISBN
0-8186-8579-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HPDC.1998.710034
Filename
710034
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