SCI evaluation in multinode environments for computing and data processing applications

Author

González, V. ; Sanchis, E. ; Torralba, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Valencia Univ., Spain

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Abstract

The need of high performance low-cost computing systems motivates intense research in the field and some very fine results have been achieved. By clustering cheap personal computers together we place a virtual supercomputer at our disposal. Currently, PC cluster are mainly programmed using message passing programming models. The SCI interconnect technology opens the possibility for shared memory models. In order to profit from all the advantages that SCI offers, an Application Programming Interface for SCI based systems is needed. The SISCI API provides the necessary tools for developing SCI based systems applications like performance tests and other similar utilities. This paper presents an easy application which uses the SCI API functions and was developed to measure the total bandwidth of a cluster. Four PCs with Pentium II and running under Windows NT 4.0 were connected via Dolphin´s 4-port switch

Keywords

application program interfaces; message passing; system buses; workstation clusters; Application Programming Interface; SCI evaluation; SCI interconnect technology; data processing applications; high performance low-cost computing systems; multinode environments; performance tests; shared memory models; virtual supercomputer; Application software; Bandwidth; Costs; Data processing; Microcomputers; Multiprocessing systems; Personal communication networks; Semiconductor device measurement; Switches; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6503-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2000.949973

Filename

949973