DocumentCode
3501790
Title
Star modeling on IBM RS6000 networks using PVM
Author
Colombet, Laurent ; Desbat, Laurent ; Ménard, Francois
Author_Institution
LMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
fYear
1993
fDate
20-23 Jul 1993
Firstpage
121
Lastpage
128
Abstract
The authors present the parallelization of a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code on a workstation network using PVM. In order to measure parallel performances on heterogenous networks, they propose a generalization to heterogeneous parallel architectures of the classical speedup and efficiency definitions. They apply these formulae to the study of their parallel code. They then show some scientific results obtained using this program on a Gflops peak performance network
Keywords
Monte Carlo methods; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; IBM RS6000 networks; Monte Carlo radiative transfer code; PVM; heterogeneous parallel architectures; heterogenous networks; parallel performances; parallel virtual machine; star modelling; Collimators; Computer networks; Electromagnetic scattering; Geometry; Monte Carlo methods; Particle scattering; Polarization; Sun; Supercomputers; Workstations;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
High Performance Distributed Computing, 1993., Proceedings the 2nd International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Spokane, WA
Print_ISBN
0-8186-3900-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HPDC.1993.263850
Filename
263850
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