Performance enhancements for a dynamic cluster, based on OS expertise

Author

Kehagias, D. ; Ximerakis, D. ; Grivas, M. ; Pantziou, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics, Technological Educ. Instn. of Athens, Greece

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

28-30 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

49

Abstract

In a previous work we presented a dynamic cluster, focusing on the technical details of its construction and its merits to research. That architecture matured and progressed through use and experimentation. New technologies and protocols have updated the platform and several tests have shown new ways of improvement. This work presents the enhancements that can be done to the operating system in order to further improve performance. Through a number of tests and benchmarks we justify the belief that improving the underlying operating system results to enhancing the overall cluster performance.

Keywords

operating systems (computers); performance evaluation; OS expertise; dynamic cluster; operating system; overall cluster performance; Availability; Ethernet networks; Kernel; Laboratories; Linux; Operating systems; Personal communication networks; Testing; Web server; Workstations; Beowulf Clusters; Linux Cluster performance enhancement; NoW; dynamic Cluster;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Services, 2005. 7th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9164-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TELSKS.2005.1572061

Filename

1572061