Abstract
This paper presents some performance results obtained from a new Beowulf cluster, the Helix, built at Massey University, Auckland funded by the Allan Wilson Center for Evolutionary Ecology. Issues concerning network latency and the effect of the switching fabric and network topology on performance are discussed. In order to assess how the system performed using the message passing interface (MPI), two test suites (mpptest and jumpshot) were used to provide a comprehensive network performance analysis. The performance of an older fast-ethernet/single processor based cluster is compared to the new Gigabit/SMP cluster. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.
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Barczak, A. L. C., Messom, C. H., & Johnson, M. J. (2003). Performance characteristics of a cost-effective medium-sized Beowulf cluster supercomputer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2660, 1050–1059. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44864-0_109
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