A Design Study of Alternative Network Topologies for the Beowulf Parallel Workstation

Proceedings Fifth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 1996

Chance Reschke, Thomas Sterling, Daniel Ridge
Center of Excellence in Space Data
and Information Sciences
Code 930.5 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
{creschke, tron, newt}@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov

- Daniel Savarese
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
dfs@cs.umd.edu

- Donald Becker, Phillip Merkey
Center of Excellence in Space Data
and Information Sciences
Code 930.5 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
{becker, merk}@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Beowulf Architecture
• System Software
• Experimental Methods and Results
  • Internode Communication Bandwidth
  • Parallel Disk I/O
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• References
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