A special distributed system in a general programming environment
Andrei Heilper, John M. Marberg · 2002
An approach aimed at running a special class of computationally intensive applications in an affordable heterogeneous computing environment built around existing off-the-shelf hardware is described. The software support combines a general-purpose parallel programming language with a remote procedure call facility. The increase in throughput is a result of the overlap in servers computations. The attractiveness of the system comes mainly from its low cost. A typical application involving the traveling salesman problem is described, and performance issues are discussed.>