Evaluation of Mosix—Linux Farm Performances in GRID Environment

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2001-01-11
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TheMOSIXextensionstotheLinuxOperatingSystemallowthecreationofhigh-performanceLinuxFarmsandanexcellentintegrationoftheseveralCPUsoftheFarm,whosecomputationalpowercanbefurtherlyinereasedandmademoreeffectivebynetorkingthemwithintheGRIDenvironment.Followingthisstrategy,westartedtoperformcomputationaltestsusingtwoindependentfarrmswithintheGRIDenvironment.Inparticular,weperformedapreliminaryevaluationofthedistributedcomputingefficiencywithaMOSIXLinuxfarminthesimulationofgravitationalwavesdataanalysisfromcoalescingbinaries.Tothistask,twodifferenttechniqueswerecompared.theclassicalmatchedfilterstechniqueandoneofitspossibleevolutions,basedonaglobaloptimisationtechnique.