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Abstract : |
The typical workstation in a LAN is idle during large periods of time. Under the concept of a hypercomputer this unused, distributed computing power can be put at the disposal of the user. The dynamic, heterogeneous, and distributed environment calls for a platform taking care of transparency, parallelization, load balancing and other issues. We describe such a system which, by optimized design and dynamic load distribution, proves faster than many related approaches. Performance measurements and an analytic model on scalability are presented for an explicit finite difference PDE solver., |
