MP-Cluma - A CORBA Based Cluster Management Tool

There are many underlying hardware architectures for execution of parallel applications. One of these is the Network of Workstations (NOW) which is an interesting solution for users who want to reuse existing hardware for parallel processing. The use of this architecture leads to special demands concerning the generation and start of MPIapplications. The MP-MPICH project of our institute provides the user with libraries for MPI-applications on different platforms with different operating systems and interconnects. To enable an uniform and comfortable startup of the resulting MPI-applications, a special tool is needed. This tool named MP-Cluma is described in this paper. The heterogeneous hardware and software structure of the NOW leads to special implementation requirements, which will be specified. Furthermore, MP-Cluma illustrates the network assembly of the available nodes by mapping this structure to a hierarchical cluster structure. We explain why we considered CORBA to be the be...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: PDPTA
• Authors: Silke Schuch, Martin Pöppe
• Keywords: Hardware, PDPTA 2004, PDPTA 2007, Tool Named Mp-cluma, Underlying Hardware Architectures