Dynamite-blasting obstacles to parallel cluster computing
Author(s) -
G.D. van Albada,
J. Clinckemaillie,
Ad Emmen,
J. Gehring,
Oliver Heinz,
Frank van der Linden,
B.J. Overeinder,
A. Reinefeld,
P.M.A. Sloot
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
lecture notes in computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Book series
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 400
eISSN - 1611-3349
pISSN - 0302-9743
ISBN - 3-540-65821-1
DOI - 10.1007/bfb0100591
Subject(s) - programmer , dynamite , workstation , computer science , crash , software , cluster (spacecraft) , operating system , distributed computing , explosive material , chemistry , organic chemistry
Workstations make up a very large fraction of the total available computing capacity in many organisations. In order to use this capacity optimally, dynamic allocation of computing resources is needed. The Esprit project Dynamite addresses this load balancing problem through the migration of tasks in a dynamically linked parallel program. An important goal of the project is to accomplish this in a manner that is transparent both to the application programmer and to the user. As a test bed, the Pam-Crash software from ESI is used.
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