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- From: strumpen@ifi.unizh.ch (Volker Strumpen)
- Subject: Linda / The Parform
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.191745.491@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Sender: strumpen@ifi.unizh.ch
- Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 19:17:45 GMT
- Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu
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- This message is addressed to all who were/are interested in distributed
- parallel computing. A couple of months ago we started a thread in this
- group, which again heated up the discussion whether the Linda or message
- passing paradigm are superior.
-
- We have compared the open domain Linda implementation POSYBL with a
- Transputer Multicluster, PVM and our platform The Parform. POSYBL turned
- out to be clearly worse than the other systems. Thus, we concluded, that
- the tuple space concept is inefficient.
-
- After time has passed now, we could make SCA-Linda measurements with an
- explicit heat equation solver on a 2D grid in our network:
-
- Procs POSYBL SCA linda PVM MC-2 The Parform
- 1 1370.6 1370.6 1370.6 -- 1370.6 (1.0)*
- 2 737.2 662.2 648.0 -- 654.8 (2.1)
- 4 442.6 342.6 328.0 921.4 332.3 (4.1)
- 6 339.3 235.5 219.0 618.5 221.7 (6.2)
- 8 284.6 175.8 168.4 466.7 170.2 (8.0)
- 10 260.2 144.3 143.6 376.6 137.4 (10.0)
- 12 244.7 122.1 116.6 318.2 116.0 (11.8)
- 14 242.7 104.5 100.1 276.2 103.5 (13.5)
- 16 239.5 92.8 90.0 240.0 89.0 (15.4)
- 18 242.6 84.5 97.5 215.9 80.9 (16.9)
- 20 241.6 76.0 85.8 196.6 73.5 (18.7)
- 22 71.5 68.5 182.8 67.5 (20.3)
- 24 66.5 63.6 170.9 62.5 (21.9)
- 26 63.1 60.5 160.9 58.6 (23.4)
- 28 58.5 56.7 151.9 55.8 (24.7)
- 30 55.1 53.5 144.7 53.0 (25.9)
- 32 54.0 54.0 138.5 51.0 (26.9)
- 34 52.4 54.0 50.8 (27.0)
- 36 51.4 52.0 48.5 (28.3)
- 38 51.3 54.0 48.4 (28.3)
- 40 52.9 47.2 (29.0)
-
- * speedup in parentheses
-
-
- For further information, we refer the reader to our old report, ftp-able
- from claude.ifi.unizh.ch. An upgraded version will be published in near
- future.
-
- This result verifies, that SCA Linda's runtime system can handle regular
- problems like a PDE solver very well. Certainly, a heap of work went into
- the optimizers of this system.
-
- This code is message passing code and not Linda flavored code. Runtimes
- of a Linda flavored code were several times longer than the message
- passing style code.
-
-
- Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
-
- Volker Strumpen and Clemens Cap
-
-
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- Volker Strumpen email: strumpen@ifi.unizh.ch
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