Performance evaluation of a Windows NT based PC cluster for high performance computing

  • Authors:
  • Giancarlo Alfonsi;Lorenzo Muttoni

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Difesa del Suolo, Università della, Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy;Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, via Ponzio 3415, 20133 Milano, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In recent times the computational power of personal computers has remarkably increased and the use of groups of PCs and workstations, connected by a network and dedicated to parallel computations, is today frequent. Computing clusters are mainly based on UNIX workstations and Linux PCs but, in the last few years, different implementations of message passing systems were made available also for Microsoft Windows. In this work we test the performance of two implementations of MPI for Windows platforms, and we compare the results with those obtained from Linux systems.