Cluster computing environment supporting single system image

Single system image(SSI) systems have been the mainstay of high-performance computing for many years. SSI requires the integration and aggregation of all types of resources in a cluster to present a single interface to users. In this paper, we describe a cluster computing environment supporting SSI, constructed through three components: single process space(SPS), process migration, and dynamic load balancing. These components attempt to share all available resources in the cluster among all executing processes, so that the cluster operates like a single node with much more computing power. The most important goal is to combine these constructs in innovative ways for building cluster computing environment for SSI, as well as individually take a novel approache to improve performance or functionality. Our implementation of process migration has the capability of resolving broken pipe problems and bind errors on server socket reconstruction. We realize SPS based on block PID allocation. ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CLUSTER
• Authors: Min Choi, DaeWoo Lee, Seung Ryoul Maeng
• Keywords: CLUSTER 2004, Cluster Computing Environment, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Dynamic Load Balancing, Environment Supporting Ssi