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A Communication System For High-Performance Distributed Computing, Salim Hariri, Jongbaek Park, Manish Parashar, Geoffrey C. Fox
A Communication System For High-Performance Distributed Computing, Salim Hariri, Jongbaek Park, Manish Parashar, Geoffrey C. Fox
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
With the current advances in computer and networking technology coupled with the availability of software tools for parallel and distributed computing, there has been increased interests in high-performance distributed computing (HPDC). We envision that HPDC environments with supercomputing capabilities will be available in the near future. However, a number of issues have to be resolved before future network-based applications can exploit fully the potential of HPDC environment. In this paper, we present an architecture of a high-speed local area network and a communication system that provides HPDC applications with high bandwidth and low latency. We also characterize the message-passing primitives …
The Virtual Computing Environment, Philip Rousselle, Paul Tymann, Salim Hariri, Geoffrey C. Fox
The Virtual Computing Environment, Philip Rousselle, Paul Tymann, Salim Hariri, Geoffrey C. Fox
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
A network of supercomputers and high-performance workstations appears to be the only reasonable way to provide adequate computing resources for the Grand Challenge problems of the next century. Such a collection of computers and supporting software environments is called a virtual computing environment (VCE). This paper describes the motivation and goals of the VCE project, followed by a description of the system. The paper concentrates on the runtime aspects of the VCE, and concludes with a discussion of a small prototype system that has been built using the Isis distributed toolkit.