Title :
Scaling of Beowulf-class distributed systems
Author :
Salmon, John ; Sterling, Thomas ; Bordawekar, Rajesh ; Stein, Christopher
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;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Distributed Computing, 1998. Proceedings. The Seventh International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8579-4
DOI :
10.1109/HPDC.1998.710034
