A special distributed system in a general programming environment

Author

Heilper, A. ; Marberg, John

Author_Institution

IBM Israel, Haifa, Israel

fYear

1990

fDate

22-25 Oct 1990

Firstpage

82

Lastpage

88

Abstract

An approach aimed at running a special class of computationally intensive applications in an affordable heterogeneous computing environment built around existing off-the-shelf hardware is described. The software support combines a general-purpose parallel programming language with a remote procedure call facility. The increase in throughput is a result of the overlap in servers computations. The attractiveness of the system comes mainly from its low cost. A typical application involving the traveling salesman problem is described, and performance issues are discussed

Keywords

distributed processing; parallel programming; programming environments; special purpose computers; computationally intensive applications; general programming environment; general-purpose parallel programming language; heterogeneous computing environment; off-the-shelf hardware; performance issues; remote procedure call facility; software support; special distributed system; traveling salesman problem; Application software; Costs; Graphics; Hardware; Local area networks; Microprocessors; Programming environments; Sampling methods; Signal processing; Token networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology, 1990. 'Next Decade in Information Technology', Proceedings of the 5th Jerusalem Conference on (Cat. No.90TH0326-9)

Conference_Location

Jerusalem

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2078-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JCIT.1990.128272

Filename

128272