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EuroPVM/MPI 1998: Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface pp 180–187Cite as

Distributed computing in a heterogeneous computing environment

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Distributed computing is a means to overcome the limitations of single computing systems. In this paper we describe how clusters of heterogeneous supercomputers can be used to run a single application or a set of applications. We concentrate on the communication problem in such a configuration and present a software library called PACX-MPI that was developed to allow a single system image from the point of view of an MPI programmer. We describe the concepts that have been implemented for heterogeneous clusters of this type and give a description of real applications using this library.

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  1. Parallel Computing Department, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Allmandring 30, D-70550, Stuttgart, Germany

    Edgar Gabriel, Michael Resch, Thomas Beisel & Rainer Keller

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Gabriel, E., Resch, M., Beisel, T., Keller, R. (1998). Distributed computing in a heterogeneous computing environment. In: Alexandrov, V., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056574

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