High Performance Cluster Computing, Volume 1

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Rajkumar Buyya
Prentice Hall PTR, 1999 - Computers - 849 pages


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Cluster computing: the state-of-the-art in theory and practice

Rapid improvements in network and processor performance are revolutionizing high-performance computing, transforming clustered commodity workstations into the supercomputing solution of choice. This book brings together contributions from more than 100 leading practitioners, offering a single source for up-to-the-minute information on virtually every key system-related issue in high-performance cluster computing.

The book contains expert coverage of "commodity supercomputing" systems and architectures; Internet-based wide area "metacomputing" systems; the role of Java; new applications and algorithms; advanced techniques for enhancing availability and throughput; and much more. Discover the state-of-the-art in:

  • Communal multiprocessing/adaptive parallelism techniques for resource sharing
  • Networking, lightweight protocols, active messages, "killer switches," and I/O
  • Cluster middleware and resource management systems
  • Cluster computing programming environments, tools, and paradigms
  • Administering high-performance clustered systems

High Performance Cluster Computing, Volume 1: Architectures and Systems captures the remarkable breadth, depth, and power of the cluster computing revolution. Whatever your role in high-performance parallel computing - developer, researcher, administrator, instructor, or manager - this is the one book you cannot be without.

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Contents

Cluster Computing at a Glance
3
Cluster Computing at a Glance
4
Clusters Classifications
11
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

algorithm allocation allows approach architecture bandwidth Beowulf block buffer cache checkpoint client cluster computing cluster of workstations communication components configuration connected cost database device disk Distributed Shared Memory distributed system DSM system dynamic efficient endpoint Ethernet execution failure Fast Ethernet Figure filesystem global hardware heterogeneous high performance host HTC environment IEEE implementation interconnect interface kernel latency layer Linux load balancing machines matrix mechanism message passing metacomputing microkernel migration monitoring multiple Myrinet Network RAM nodes object operating system optimal overhead packet parallel applications parallel computing parallel programs parameters port problem processors protocol queue reliable replication requests resource running scalability scheduling server shared memory simulation single single system image specific switch synchronization tasks threads traffic UNIX virtual

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About the author (1999)

RAJKUMAR BUYYA is a researcher at the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He was Guest Editor for the Special Issue on High Performance Computing on Clusters, Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices Journal, and co-author of Mastering C++ and Microprocessor x86 Programming. He is a speaker in the IEEE Computer Society Chapter Tutorials Program and Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Cluster Computing.

Bibliographic information

TitleHigh Performance Cluster Computing, Volume 1
High Performance Cluster Computing, Rajkumar Buyya
Volume 1 of High Performance Cluster Computing: Architectures and Systems, Rajkumar Buyya
EditorRajkumar Buyya
Editionillustrated
PublisherPrentice Hall PTR, 1999
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedNov 17, 2007
ISBN0130137847, 9780130137845
Length849 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Computers / Data Science / General
Computers / Distributed Systems / General
Computers / General
Computers / Programming / Parallel
  
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