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SNOW: a Parallel Programming Environment for Clusters of Workstations

Wolfgang Schröder-preikschat, Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik Gmbh (gmd, Alexandre Navaux, Prof Antônio, Augusto Medeiros Fröhlich, Prof Dr, Prof Dr, Prof Dr, Sérgio Takeo Kofuji, Altus Sistemas

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Motivation The parallel computing community has been using clusters of commodity workstations as an alternative to expensive massively parallel processors (MPP) for several years. While MPPs can rely on custom hardware to achieve high performance, their development follows a slow pace, mainly due to the small production scale. Clusters, in the other hand, benefit from the frenetic pace with which the workstation market evolves. As a matter of fact, when an MPP comes to the market, it is very likely that processor, memory and interconnection systems with similar features will already be available at the commodity market. Therefore, it seems evident that both technologies are going to converge into a single one. However, when we compare the performance of parallel applications running on clusters and on MPPs, the figures show a quite different scenario: clusters are still far behind their expensive relatives. The Numerical Aerospace Simulation Facility from NASA ha

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Schröder-preikschat, W., (gmd, F. I. G., Navaux, A., Antônio, P., Fröhlich, A. M., Dr, P., Dr, P., Dr, P., Kofuji, S. T., & Sistemas, A. (2007). SNOW: a Parallel Programming Environment for Clusters of Workstations.

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Schröder-preikschat, Wolfgang, et al. “SNOW: a Parallel Programming Environment for Clusters of Workstations.” 2007.

Chicago

Schröder-preikschat, Wolfgang, Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik Gmbh (gmd, Alexandre Navaux, Prof Antônio, Augusto Medeiros Fröhlich, Prof Dr, Prof Dr, Prof Dr, Sérgio Takeo Kofuji, and Altus Sistemas. 2007. “SNOW: a Parallel Programming Environment for Clusters of Workstations.”

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Schröder-preikschat, W. et al. (2007) ‘SNOW: a Parallel Programming Environment for Clusters of Workstations’.

BibTeX

@article{schroderpreikschat2007snow,
  title = {{SNOW: a Parallel Programming Environment for Clusters of Workstations}},
  author = {Schröder-preikschat, Wolfgang and (gmd, Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik Gmbh and Navaux, Alexandre and Antônio, Prof and Fröhlich, Augusto Medeiros and Dr, Prof and Dr, Prof and Dr, Prof and Kofuji, Sérgio Takeo and Sistemas, Altus},
  year = {2007}
}

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