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Performance Measurements on Dynamite/DPVM

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 2000)

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The total computing capacity of workstations can be harnessed more efficiently by using a dynamic task allocation system. The Esprit project Dynamite provides such an automated load balancing system, through the migration of tasks of a parallel program using PVM. The Dynamite package is completely transparent, i.e. neither system (kernel) nor application program modifications are needed. Dynamite supports migration of tasks using dynamically linked libraries, open files and both direct and indirect PVM communication. In this paper we briefly introduce the Dynamite system and subsequently report on a collection of performance measurements.

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  1. Informatics Institute, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    K. A. Iskra, Z. W. Hendrikse, G. D. van Albada, B. J. Overeinder & P. M. A. Sloot

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Iskra, K.A., Hendrikse, Z.W., van Albada, G.D., Overeinder, B.J., Sloot, P.M.A. (2000). Performance Measurements on Dynamite/DPVM. In: Dongarra, J., Kacsuk, P., Podhorszki, N. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1908. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45255-9_8

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