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CLUSTER
COMPUTING:
The Future Trend in Parallel
Processing
Shahriar
Shahhoseini
(Invited Talk)
Talk given at 5th Annual International CSI Computer
Conference
Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty, Shahid Beheshti University,
Tehran,Iran,7-9 March 2000.
ABSTRACT:
In this talk the current situation of parallel processing system has
been discussed. Needs for more computational power leads to build parallel
processing systems. In this type of computer many processing units work with
each other to solve a common problem. The most important disadvantage of a
simple parallel processing is miss of scalability, i.e. saturation of the
processing power for large number of processing units. This saturation
originates from hardware overhead (conflict over common resources) and software
overhead (more compiling time fore reaching to the acceptable intercommunicating
between jobs). The solution of reducing this overheads in huge systems and
reaching to the scalability, is clustering the processing units. This may be
apply in tightly coupled or loosely coupled systems. A new
structure, MultiStage Clustering System or MSCS, is introduced and an example
of structural design of a 2 Tera Instruction Per Second system is discussed.
IEEE Task Force Cluster Computing (TFCC), the new founded TF
in IEEE Computer Society regarding Cluster Computing efforts in the world is introduced. TFCC
activities which includes: main and region home pages, book
donation, conference organizing, white pages, mailing list are
introduced.
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H.S.Shahhoseini,Ph.D
Iran University of Science & Technology
Electrical Engineering Department
Narmak, Tehran, 16844, Iran.
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