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@InProceedings{VinterAnshus01,
title = "{U}sing {T}wo-, {F}our- and {E}ight-{W}ay {M}ultiprocessors as {C}luster {C}omponents",
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author= "Vinter, Brian and Anshus, Otto J. and Larsen, Tore and Bjørndalen, John Markus",
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editor= "Chalmers, Alan G. and Mirmehdi, Majid and Muller, Henk",
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pages = "129--148",
booktitle= "{C}ommunicating {P}rocess {A}rchitectures 2001",
isbn= "1 58603 202 X",
year= "2001",
month= "sep",
abstract= "This work considers the pros and cons of different size SMPs
as nodes in clusters. We investigate the Intel SMP
architecture and consider the potential of and some problems
with larger node-sizes in clusters of multiprocessors. Six
applications that represent different classes of parallel
applications are developed in versions that support both
shared and distributed memory. Performance measurements are
done on three different clusters of multiprocessors, with
the purpose of identifying how the number of processors in
each SMP node impacts the cluster performance. Our results
show that clusters using higher order SMPs do not give a
clear performance benefit compared to clusters using two-way
SMPs. Off the bench mark-suite of six applications, the
performance of two turn out to be independent of node-size,
two show an advantage of larger node-sizes, as much as 34
percent improvement of eight-way nodes over a dual-system,
while the remaining two show an advantage of dual-processor
nodes as big as 11 percent over an eight-way cluster."
}