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It is recognised that the availability of a large number of workstations connected through a network can represent an attractive option for many organisations to provide to application programmers an alternative environment for high-performance computing. The original specification of the Message-Passing Interface (MPI) standard was not designed as a comprehensive parallel programming environment and some researchers agree that the standard should be preserved as simple and clean as possible. Nevertheless, a software environment such as MPI should have somehow a scheduling mechanism for the effective submission of parallel applications on network of workstations. This paper presents the performance results and benefits of an alternative lightweight approach called Selective — MPI (S-MPI), which was designed to enhance the efficiency of the scheduling of applications on parallel workstation cluster environments.
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- Parallel Application
- Cluster Configuration
- Alternative Environment
- Gaussian Algorithm
- Workstation Cluster
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M.A.R. Dantas and E.J. Zaluska. Efficient Scheduling of MPI Applications on Network of Workstations. Accepted Paper on Future Generation Computer Systems Journal, 1997.
William Gropp Patrick Bridges, Nathan Doss. Users’ Guide to mpich, a Portable Implementation of MPI. Argonne National Laboratory http://www.mcs.anl.gov, 1994.
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Dantas, M.A.R. (1998). Evaluation of process migration for parallel heterogeneous workstation clusters. In: Pritchard, D., Reeve, J. (eds) Euro-Par’98 Parallel Processing. Euro-Par 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1470. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057880
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