An Efficient Group Communication Architecture over ATM Networks
HCW '98 Proceedings of the Seventh Heterogeneous Computing Workshop
NYNET Communication System (NCS): A Multithreaded Message Passing Tool Over ATM Network
HPDC '96 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
A comprehensive framework for the evaluation of ontology modularization
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Abstract: The recent development of parallel and distributed computing software has introduced a variety of software tools that support several programming paradigms and languages. This variety of tools makes the selection of the best tool to run a given class of applications on a parallel or distributed system a non-trivial task that requires some investigation. We expect tool evaluation to receive more attention as the deployment and usage of distributed systems increases. In this pa-per, we present a multi-level evaluation methodology for parallel/distributed tools in which tools are evaluated from different perspectives. We apply our evaluation methodology to three message passing tools viz Express,P4, and PVM. The approach covers several important distributed systems platforms consisting of different computers (e.g., IBM-SPl, Alpha cluster, SUN workstations) interconnected by different types of net-works (e.g., Ethernet, FDDI, ATM).