Performance characteristics of a cost-effective medium-sized Beowulf cluster supercomputer

Andre L C Barczak; Chris H. Messom; Martin J. Johnson

doi:10.1007/3-540-44864-0_109

Performance characteristics of a cost-effective medium-sized Beowulf cluster supercomputer

Andre L C Barczak, Chris H. Messom, Martin J. Johnson

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Science – ICCS 2003
Subtitle of host publication	International Conference Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russia June 2-4, 2003 Proceedings, Part IV
Editors	Peter M.A. Sloot, David Abramson, Alexander V. Bogdanov, Jack J. Dongarra, Albert Y. Zomaya, Yuriy E. Gorbachev
Place of Publication	Berlin Germany
Publisher	Springer
Pages	1050-1059
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	3540401970
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44864-0_109
Publication status	Published - 2003
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Computational Science 2003 - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 2 Jun 2003 → 4 Jun 2003 Conference number: 3rd http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2003/index.html https://link-springer-com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/book/10.1007/3-540-44860-8 (Proceedings)

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	2660
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

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Conference	International Conference on Computational Science 2003
Abbreviated title	ICCS 2003
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	2/06/03 → 4/06/03
Internet address	http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2003/index.html https://link-springer-com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/book/10.1007/3-540-44860-8 (Proceedings)

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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. In P. M. A. Sloot, D. Abramson, A. V. Bogdanov, J. J. Dongarra, A. Y. Zomaya, & Y. E. Gorbachev (Eds.), Computational Science – ICCS 2003: International Conference Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russia June 2-4, 2003 Proceedings, Part IV (pp. 1050-1059). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 2660). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44864-0_109

Barczak, Andre L C ; Messom, Chris H. ; Johnson, Martin J. / Performance characteristics of a cost-effective medium-sized Beowulf cluster supercomputer. Computational Science – ICCS 2003: International Conference Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russia June 2-4, 2003 Proceedings, Part IV. editor / Peter M.A. Sloot ; David Abramson ; Alexander V. Bogdanov ; Jack J. Dongarra ; Albert Y. Zomaya ; Yuriy E. Gorbachev. Berlin Germany : Springer, 2003. pp. 1050-1059 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Barczak, ALC, Messom, CH & Johnson, MJ 2003, Performance characteristics of a cost-effective medium-sized Beowulf cluster supercomputer. in PMA Sloot, D Abramson, AV Bogdanov, JJ Dongarra, AY Zomaya & YE Gorbachev (eds), Computational Science – ICCS 2003: International Conference Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russia June 2-4, 2003 Proceedings, Part IV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2660, Springer, Berlin Germany, pp. 1050-1059, International Conference on Computational Science 2003, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2/06/03. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44864-0_109

Performance characteristics of a cost-effective medium-sized Beowulf cluster supercomputer. / Barczak, Andre L C; Messom, Chris H.; Johnson, Martin J.
Computational Science – ICCS 2003: International Conference Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russia June 2-4, 2003 Proceedings, Part IV. ed. / Peter M.A. Sloot; David Abramson; Alexander V. Bogdanov; Jack J. Dongarra; Albert Y. Zomaya; Yuriy E. Gorbachev. Berlin Germany: Springer, 2003. p. 1050-1059 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 2660).

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Barczak ALC, Messom CH, Johnson MJ. Performance characteristics of a cost-effective medium-sized Beowulf cluster supercomputer. In Sloot PMA, Abramson D, Bogdanov AV, Dongarra JJ, Zomaya AY, Gorbachev YE, editors, Computational Science – ICCS 2003: International Conference Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russia June 2-4, 2003 Proceedings, Part IV. Berlin Germany: Springer. 2003. p. 1050-1059. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/3-540-44864-0_109

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