Paper (*cross-listing*): cs.DC/0510094
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:55:57 GMT (66kb)

Title: Big Science with a Small Budget: Non-Embarrassingly Parallel
Applications in a Non-Dedicated Network of Workstations

Authors: Angel de Vicente, Nayra Rodriguez

Comments: 4 pages; to appear in Proceedings of ADASS XV
(http://www.adass.org:8080/Conferences/2005/Venue/)

Subj-class: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
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Many astronomers and astrophysicists require large computing resources for
their research, which are usually obtained via dedicated (and expensive)
parallel machines. Depending on the type of the problem to be solved, an
alternative solution can be provided by creating dynamically a computer cluster
out of non-dedicated workstations using the Condor High Throughput Computing
System and the Master-Worker (MW) framework. As an example of this we show in
this paper how a radiative transfer application previously coded with MPI is
solved using this solution without the need for dedicated machines.

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