DIMES: let the internet measure itself
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Sequence analysis on a 216-processor beowulf cluster
ALS'00 Proceedings of the 4th annual Linux Showcase & Conference - Volume 4
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We have developed a software tool called MoBiDiCK ultimately intended for distributed computing. In this report we detail the design and show results using the core components of MoBiDiCK running two different clients on a local cluster. MoBiDiCK is a database driven system that can be used to marshal a large number of processors across the Internet in order to have them collaborate on a single computation. These utilize a message-passing API and control synchronization formalism we have developed that uses the HTTP standard and Web servers. CGI programs on the volunteer processors perform the computations. The problem domains best served by MoBiDiCK are parallel computing problems that are CPU-bound (not I/O-bound), and require minimal inter-process communication. The parallel tasks that we present include analysis of databases of three dimensional protein structures and Monte-Carlo simulations for ab-initio protein folding.