MPPs and clusters for scalable computing

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  • ISPAN '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks
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  • 1996

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Abstract

This article assess the state-of-the-art technology in massively parallel processors (MPPs) and clusters of workstations (COWs) for scalable parallel computing. We evaluate the IBM SP2, the Intel Paragon, the Cray T3D/T3E, and the ASCI TeraFLOPS system recently proposed by Intel. The concept of scalability is characterized from several orthogonal dimensions. Scalable performance attributes are discussed in the context of a newly proposed parallel computer model.