| Autor: |
Oguchi, Masato, Tamura, Takayuki, Shintani, Takahiko, Kitsuregawa, Masaru |
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Electronics & Communications in Japan, Part 1: Communications; Jul1999, Vol. 82 Issue 7, p12-24, 13p |
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A recent tendency in parallel computer design has been to use general-purpose components for system configuration elements such as CPUs, disks, and memories, which used to be specially developed. Although the connection network between the processors has been specially developed, it is now possible to configure a large-scale PC cluster with good performance at low cost by making use of an ATM network as a processor connection network because of the development and cost reduction of ATM network technologies in the communication field. In this paper, a large-scale PC cluster is constructed by connecting 100 personal computers by means of a general-purpose ATM network. Applications to parallel data mining are evaluated and discussed. In particular, an analysis is carried out with a focus on the effect of TCP retransmission with cell discarding of the ATM switch on the performance. The parameter setting of a retransmission mechanism suitable for the parallel processing in the cluster is found. Further, by developing a method for setting the retransmission spacing parameters to random values for each node, it is shown that a further improvement is possible. © 1999 Scripta Technica, Electron Comm Jpn Pt 1, 82(7): 12–24, 1999 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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