HPC on DEC Alphas and Windows NT
Nicole, D.A., Wolton, I.C. and Takeda, K. (1998) HPC on DEC Alphas and Windows NT. In, HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 551-557.
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We have obtained a dedicated computational cluster of eight DEC Alpha systems interconnected by 100 Hz switched Ethernet and running Digital Visual FORTRAN on Windows NT. This is an 8 Gflop/s (peak) system with 2 Gbytes of memory. The total cost was under £50,000. We have just finished porting MPI onto this environment and are now able to run mainstream UK HPC codes such as ANGUS. We believe that our system is a highly cost-effective environment for the development and medium-scale execution of science and engineering codes; it currently represents the biggest single computational resource at Southampton. We present our early experiences with this leading edge medium-scale resource and some early performance results for sequential, MPI and PVM FORTRAN codes.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| ISBNs: | 0306460343 |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Electronic & Software Systems |
| Item ID: | 250899 |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Sep 1999 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:57 |
| Contributors: | Nicole, D.A. (Author) Wolton, I.C. (Author) Takeda, K. (Author) |
| Date: | January 1998 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/250899 |
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