Software and hardware support for workstation-based supercomputing

Salim Hariri; Manish Parashar; Jong Baek Park

doi:10.1109/HICSS.1993.270636

Software and hardware support for workstation-based supercomputing

Salim Hariri, Manish Parashar, Jong Baek Park

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Abstract

The presented research has two main objectives: (1) to investigate the limitations of communications techniques used in current workstations-based systems and to identify a set of requirements that must be satisfied to achieve workstation-based supercomputing; and (2) to use these requirements to develop software and hardware support that makes workstation-based supercomputing possible. The performance of two applications, the LU factorization of dense matrices and the calculation of the fast Fourier transform, on two platforms, The iPSC/860 supercomputer and a cluster of general-purpose workstations, is used in the analysis to identify the limitations of current workstation clusters and to show that if these limitations are overcome, the clusters can provide comparable performance to that offered by an expensive supercomputer.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 1993
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	286-295
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	0818632305
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1993.270636
State	Published - 1993
Externally published	Yes
Event	26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 1993 - Wailea, United States Duration: Jan 8 1993 → …

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Volume	1
ISSN (Print)	1530-1605

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Conference	26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 1993
Country/Territory	United States
City	Wailea
Period	1/8/93 → …

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Hariri, S., Parashar, M., & Park, J. B. (1993). Software and hardware support for workstation-based supercomputing. In Proceedings of the 26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 1993 (pp. 286-295). Article 270636 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Vol. 1). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1993.270636

Software and hardware support for workstation-based supercomputing. / Hariri, Salim; Parashar, Manish; Park, Jong Baek.
Proceedings of the 26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 1993. IEEE Computer Society, 1993. p. 286-295 270636 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Vol. 1).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Hariri, S, Parashar, M & Park, JB 1993, Software and hardware support for workstation-based supercomputing. in Proceedings of the 26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 1993., 270636, Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, vol. 1, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 286-295, 26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 1993, Wailea, United States, 1/8/93. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1993.270636

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