Performance results of running parallel applications on the InteGrade

The InteGrade project is an on-going project with the participation of several research groups in Brazil. It is an opportunistic grid middleware that intends to exploit the idle time of computing resources in computer laboratories. The proposed middleware is already operational and the present work has the objective of studying the performance of parallel applications with communication among processors. We present two algorithms to evaluate the performance of the InteGrade middleware. The applications running under the InteGrade grid take slightly more time than those running under the standard MPI on a cluster. The results are satisfactory. The overhead of the InteGrade middleware is acceptable, in view of the benefits obtained to ease the use of grid computing by the user.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: CONCURRENCY
• Authors: E. N. Cáceres, Henrique Mongelli, L. Loureiro, Christiane Nishibe, Siang Wun Song
• Keywords: CONCURRENCY 2010, InteGrade Middleware, Middleware, Opportunistic Grid Middleware