Title: Parallel computing on clusters and enterprise grids: practice and experience

Authors: Adam K.L. Wong, Andrzej M. Goscinski

Addresses: School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic 3216, Australia. ' School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic 3216, Australia

Abstract: We assert that companies can make more money and research institutions can improve their performance if inexpensive clusters and enterprise grids are exploited. In this paper, we have demonstrated that our claim is valid by showing the study of how programming environments, tools and middleware could be used for the execution of parallel and sequential applications, multiple parallel applications executing simultaneously on a non-dedicated cluster, and parallel applications on an enterprise grid and that the execution performance was improved. For this purpose an execution environment, and parallel and sequential benchmark applications selected for, and used in, the experiments were characterised.

Keywords: parallel benchmarks; sequential benchmarks; job scheduling; dynamic load balancing; clusters; enterprise grids; parallel computing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHPCN.2009.027464

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 2009 Vol.6 No.2, pp.137 - 147

Published online: 26 Jul 2009 *

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