Name
Title | ||
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An Experimental Study on How to Build Efficient Multi-core Clusters for High Performance Computing |
Abstract | ||
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Multi-core technology produces a new scenario for communicating processes in an MPI cluster environment and consequently the involved trade-offs need to be uncovered. This motivation guided our research and lead to a new approach for setting up more efficient clusters built with commodities. Thus, alternatively to the utilization of non-commodity interconnects such as Myrinet and Infiniband, we present a proposal based on leaving cores idle relatively to application processing in order to build economically more accessible clusters of commodities with higher performance. Execution of fine-grained IS algorithm from NAS Parallel Benchmark revealed a speedup of up to 25%. Interestingly, a cluster organized according to the proposed setup was able to outperform a single multi-core SMP host in which all processes communicate inside the host. Therefore, empirical results indicate that our proposal has been successful for medium and fine-grained algorithms. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2008 | 10.1109/CSE.2008.63 | Sao Paulo |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
data synchronization problem,straight-line instruction,serious heat dissipation,semiconductor-based microelectronics,high performance computing,experimental study,microprocessor clock speed,cmos manufacturing technology,build efficient multi-core clusters,physical limit,distributed computing,parallel processing,mpi,message passing interface,clustering algorithms,message passing,informatics,inter process communication,multicore processing,parallel programming,computational fluid dynamics,cluster computing | InfiniBand,Supercomputer,Computer science,Parallel computing,Message Passing Interface,Inter-process communication,Multi-core processor,Myrinet,Computer cluster,Distributed computing,Speedup | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-0-7695-3193-9 | 8 | 0.60 |
References | Authors | |
14 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luiz Carlos Pinto | 1 | 8 | 0.60 |
| Luiz H. B. Tomazella | 2 | 8 | 0.60 |
| M. A. R. Dantas | 3 | 64 | 11.07 |