Wide-area high-performance computing using workstations

Author

Tavangarian, D. ; Eschholz, P. ; Koch, M. ; Preuss, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Rostock Univ., Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

25-27 Aug 1998

Firstpage

945

Abstract

In this contribution an overview of the Hypercomputing project is given. The objective of this project is to employ unused computer resources, which are distributed over wide areas. A Hypercomputer represents a system of workstations and/or workstation clusters, which are integrated as a homogenous resource both for the solution of sequential as well as of parallel problems. German-wide Universities, research institutes and industrial partners are taking part in the project. Beside giving an explanation of the goals of this project, the status of the development is described. Central problem areas and the chosen attempts for the realization of the Hypercomputer prototype are demonstrated and some experiments and first experiences are explained

Keywords

performance evaluation; wide area networks; workstations; Hypercomputing project; Universities; experiments; unused computer resources; wide-area high-performance computing; workstation clusters; workstations; Computer networks; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Costs; Employment; High performance computing; Internet; Network servers; Power engineering computing; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Euromicro Conference, 1998. Proceedings. 24th

Conference_Location

Vasteras

ISSN

1089-6503

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8646-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURMIC.1998.708126

Filename

708126