期刊名称：International Journal of Computer and Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：2279-0764
出版年度：2012
卷号：1
期号：2
页码：25
出版社：International Journal of Computer and Information Technology
摘要：Beowulf cluster computing has been widely utilized by exploiting the commodity aspect of its hardware and also the open codes of its software. The implementation of message- passing within this kind of computing is performed via the explicit primitives. Basically, these explicit primitives are divided into two programming types; blocking and non- blocking communications. The effects of using these different primitives on this cluster computing have not been explored in details. This research project proposes a measurement method to empirically look into this effect and how it characterizes the operation of a task. The scope of this research is a collection of four computers that are connected to a switch via a network. Each computer is installed with Linux operating system and MPICH library software. Effects of the programming primitives are measured by a program in C language. The project outcome will offer comparison of the effect of different library routines. Application programmers can exploit this information to produce a better application on this Beowulf computing architecture.
