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A Cluster-Based Solution for a High Performance Air Quality Simulation

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Parallel computing on networks of workstations or PCs has been gaining popularity in recent years due to their competitive cost-price compared to supercomputers. In this paper we provide a cluster-based solution for a high performance air quality model, the STEM-II program. The application has been parallelized using standard MPI library on a cluster of PCs. Performance results are shown in this paper. We also compare these results with those ones obtained on a multicomputer. Speedup and scalability, as well as the ratio communication/computation cost, on both systems, are evaluated.

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  1. Computer Architecture Group, Department of Electronics and Systems, University of A Coruña, Spain

    José Carlos Mouriño, Patricia González, María J. Martín & Ramón Doallo

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Mouriño, J.C., González, P., Martín, M.J., Doallo, R. (2002). A Cluster-Based Solution for a High Performance Air Quality Simulation. In: Fagerholm, J., Haataja, J., Järvinen, J., Lyly, M., Råback, P., Savolainen, V. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing. PARA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2367. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48051-X_47

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