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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications High Performance Computing High Performance Computing Post 302278833 by otheus on Wednesday 21st of January 2009 09:30:23 AM
Old 01-21-2009
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Originally Posted by humbletech99
1. CPU intensive computation of a single task
Q1: What percentage of the operations are floating point? Do you need double-precision? (Usually the answer is yes).

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2. Parallel computation of a task broken down into pieces
What's the expected ratio between computation time and communication time between the pieces. Medium ratio: do some computation, then send intermediate results to all neighbors, then do some more computation. Low ratio: compute, send a result, wait for a message, compute, send a result, and so on. High ratio: the CPUs crunch, crunch, crunch, then finally send results to a central task which does a final computation.

This is important in deciding what kind of network capacity you will need.
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3. Storage across many commodity nodes with scalability and i/o performance
How about reliability? Commodity nodes means high rate of disk failures and/or node failures. Can you bear with frequent filesystem downtime? Or will you need high availability on this filesystem?

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4. The solutions do not need to be geographically dispersed, same server room is fine.
Does your budget include life operating costs? Does your server room have specifications for lb/ft^2 ? One institution I worked at discovered that the building was designed for a certain amount of weight density -- even in the server room. It turns out that putting more than about 8 computer racks in the room exceeded this density! So we had the room, but adding more racks might make the floor unstable, especially given that this building was in a geographically active area (about 1 4+ quake every 2 to 3 years).
 

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SEND(3PVM)							  PVM Version 3.4							SEND(3PVM)

NAME
pvm_send - Immediately sends the data in the active message buffer. SYNOPSIS
C int info = pvm_send( int tid, int msgtag ) Fortran call pvmfsend( tid, msgtag, info ) PARAMETERS
tid Integer task identifier of destination process. msgtag Integer message tag supplied by the user. msgtag should be >= 0. info Integer status code returned by the routine. DESCRIPTION
The routine pvm_send sends a message stored in the active send buffer to the PVM process identified by tid. msgtag is used to label the content of the message. If pvm_send is successful, info will be 0. If some error occurs then info will be < 0. The pvm_send routine is asynchronous. Computation on the sending processor resumes as soon as the message is safely on its way to the receiving processor. This is in contrast to synchronous communication, during which computation on the sending processor halts until the matching receive is executed by the receiving processor. The PVM model guarantees the following about message order. If task 1 sends message A to task 2, then task 1 sends message B to task 2, message A will arrive at task 2 before message B. Moreover, if both messages arrive before task 2 does a receive, then a wildcard receive will always return message A. Terminating a PVM task immediately after sending a message or messages from it may result in those messages being lost. To be sure, always call pvm_exit() before stopping. EXAMPLES
C: info = pvm_initsend( PvmDataDefault ); info = pvm_pkint( array, 10, 1 ); msgtag = 3 ; info = pvm_send( tid, msgtag ); Fortran: CALL PVMFINITSEND(PVMRAW, INFO) CALL PVMFPACK( REAL8, DATA, 100, 1, INFO ) CALL PVMFSEND( TID, 3, INFO ) ERRORS
These error conditions can be returned by pvm_send PvmBadParam giving an invalid tid or a msgtag. PvmSysErr pvmd not responding. PvmNoBuf no active send buffer. Try pvm_initsend() before send. SEE ALSO
pvm_initsend(3PVM), pvm_mcast(3PVM), pvm_pack(3PVM), pvm_psend(3PVM), pvm_recv(3PVM) 30 August, 1993 SEND(3PVM)
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