Publication detail

Prototyping cluster-based distributed applications

DVOŘÁK, V. ČEJKA, R.

Original Title

Prototyping cluster-based distributed applications

Type

book chapter

Language

English

Original Abstract

A simple CSP-based model of cluster computing is presented. A Transim simulation tool, originally intended for simulation of transputer networks, can be used to simulate various parallel applications running on workstation clusters. Since communication latency is quite high in clusters, prediction of processor utilization, obtainable speedup and execution time are of interest. The Transim tool enables to find all these figures in minimum time and with minimum effort. As an example, a solution of a large system of (1000+) linear equations on up to 8 workstations connected via Ethernet to a hardware router is simulated and results are compared to real execution based on MPI.

Keywords

Cluster computing, CSP-based modeling, parallel performance prediction, MPI, linear equations benchmark

Authors

DVOŘÁK, V.; ČEJKA, R.

Released

1. 1. 2000

Publisher

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Location

Boston

ISBN

0-7923-7892-X

Book

Distributed and Parallel Systems - From Instruction Parallelism to Cluster Computing

Edition

The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science

Pages from

229

Pages to

232

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inbook{BUT192266,
  author="Václav {Dvořák} and Rudolf {Čejka}",
  title="Prototyping cluster-based distributed applications",
  booktitle="Distributed and Parallel Systems - From Instruction Parallelism to Cluster Computing",
  year="2000",
  publisher="Kluwer Academic Publishers",
  address="Boston",
  series="The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science",
  pages="229--232",
  isbn="0-7923-7892-X"
}