Title :
A special distributed system in a general programming environment
Author :
Heilper, A. ; Marberg, John
Author_Institution :
IBM Israel, Haifa, Israel
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/JCIT.1990.128272
