Title

Preliminary Investigations Into Distributed Computing Applications On A Beowulf Cluster

Abstract

In this paper we examine various modeling and simulation applications of cluster computing using a Beowulf cluster. These applications are used to investigate the performance of our cluster in terms of computational speedup, scalability, and communications. The applications include solution of linear systems by Jacobi iteration, distributed image generation, and the finite difference time domain solution of Maxwell's equations. It is observed that the computational load for these applications must be large compared to the communication overhead to take advantage of the speedup obtained using parallel computing. For the applications reviewed here, this condition is increasingly satisfied as the problem size becomes larger or as higher resolution is required.

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Publication Title

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications, DS-RT

Volume

2000-January

Number of Pages

13-17

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/DISRTA.2000.874059

Socpus ID

70349853027 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/70349853027

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