Computing on a Cluster of PCs: Project Overview and Early Experiences
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چکیده
This paper summarizes some projects that deal with parallel computing on clusters of PCs. Although quite different approaches have been chosen, they have in common that they aim at shared data parallelization on the cluster platform. One approach is based on a SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) network that provides transparent remote memory access. A programming interface as well as first application parallelization results are summarized. The second approach relies on SVMlib, a new all-software Shared Virtual Memory subsystem (SVM) for Windows NT. In this paper, we discuss design issues, implementation details and first performance measurements of SVMlib.
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