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32 pages
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This report presents measurements performed between four European
high performance computing (HPC) centers to investigate the
possibilities and challenges of European Meta Computing using
broad-band connections. A high speed, low latency pilot network
consisting of Ethernet, FDDI, Datex-M and A sections was set up
between workstation clusters at the computing centers.
The dynamic load balancing environment HiCon [Beck95e] was installed
on the clusters and several complex, parallelized applications -
image recognition, finite element analysis and database processing -
were executed and observed. Additionally, several of these
applications where executed concurrently in the system. The load
balancing environment matched the trade-of between resource
exploitation and communication overhead according to the system and
network behavior. Performance was compared to the nowadays available
Internet connection.
The trials were supported by the European Commission among a set of
different distributed computing trials within the E=MC2 project
[Horn94], [EMC95c]. The results strengthen common promising
expectations and show several interesting challenges, limitations
and guidelines for European Meta Computing - resource sharing
between distant high performance computing centers by high speed
networks and flexible load distribution services.
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Stuttgart, Germany, Universität Stuttgart
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| type |
Text
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| Technical Report
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| source |
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/library/ncstrl.ustuttgart_fi/TR-1995-09/TR-1995-09.pdf
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| contributor |
Anwendersoftware (Prof. Reuter) (IPVR)
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application/pdf
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| subject |
Computer-Communication Networks (CR C.2)
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| Performance of Systems (CR C.4)
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| Operating Systems (CR D.4)
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| relation |
Technical Report No. 1995/09
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