Construction and Performance Test of a Supercomputing PC System using PC-clustering and Parallel Virtual Machine
Woo-Pyo Hong, Jong-Jae Kim, Kwang-Sik Oh · Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society · 1999
We introduce a way to construct a supercomputing capable system with some networked PCs, running the Linux operating system and computing power comparable with expensive commercial workstations, and with the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) software which enables one to control the total CPUs and memories of the networked PCs. By benchmarking the system using a PVM parallel program, we find that the system's parallel efficiency is close to 90 %.