Abstract
Parallel computing on clusters of workstations is receiving much attention from the research community. Unfortunately, many aspects of parallel computing over this parallel computing engine is not very well understood. Some of these issues include the workstation architectures, the network protocols, the communication-to-computation ratio, the load balancing strategies, and the data partitioning schemes. The aim of this paper is to assess the strengths and limitations of a cluster of workstations by capturing the effects of the above issues. This has been achieved by evaluating the performance of this computing environment in the execution of a parallel ray tracing application through analytical modeling and extensive experimentation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 572-577 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 1997 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Seoul, South Korea Duration: 10 Dec 1997 → 13 Dec 1997 |
Conference
| Conference | Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems |
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| City | Seoul, South Korea |
| Period | 10/12/97 → 13/12/97 |