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Massive parallelism with workstation clusters — challenge or nonsense?

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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1994)

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Workstation cluster computing recently has become an important and successful technique. The communication bottleneck limits this approach to small and medium sized configurations of up to 30 workstations for most applications. This paper demonstrates that for certain algorithms massively parallel cluster computing using thousands of workstations in the Internet is feasible. It describes structures for the coordination of a large number of geographically dispersed processes. The paper introduces Lola, a library supporting massively parallel computing in wide area networks, and provides an application example.

Research partially supported by Firma Siemens AG München and Schweizer Bundesamt für Konjunktur und Wirtschaftsförderung, grant numbers 2255.1 and 2554.1.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Zurich, Switzerland

    Clemens H. Cap

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Cap, C.H. (1994). Massive parallelism with workstation clusters — challenge or nonsense?. In: Gentzsch, W., Harms, U. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 797. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57981-8_93

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