Computational models and resource allocation for supercomputers

Journal Article · Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1989 · Proceedings of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/5.48828· OSTI ID:6845694

Mauney, J; Harcourt, E A ^[1]; Agrawal, D P ^[2]; Choe, Y K ^[3]; Kim, S ^[4]; Staats, W J ^[5]

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1. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (USA)
2. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (USA). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
3. Tangram Systems Corp., Cray, NC (US)
4. Agency for Defense Development, Daejon (KR)
5. IBM, Cary, NC (US)

Supercomputers are capable of providing tremendous computational power, but must be carefully programmed to take advantage of that power. There are several different architectures used in supercomputers, with differing computational models. These different models present a variety of resource allocation problems that must be solved. The computational needs of a program must be cast in terms of the computational model supported by the supercomputer, and this must be done in a way that makes effective use of the machine's resources. This is the resource allocation problem. The computational models of available supercomputers and the associated resource allocation techniques are surveyed. It is shown that many problems and solutions appear repeatedly in very different computing environments.

• OSTI ID: 6845694
• Journal Information: Proceedings of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA), Vol. 77:12; ISSN 0018-9219
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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