On the Performance of Simple Parallel Computer of Four PCs Cluster

Abstract

We have constructed a simple parallel computer in theform offour Pentium III 600 MHz -rfs cluster. The simplicity of our cluster was intentionally chosen so that others can follow with xse. We used Linux and MPI for the operating system and clustering application, respectively. 3enchmarkings were conducted by using some public benchmark applications such as POVMY nd HPL (high performance Linpack). In addition we have also tested the performance of our PCs :luster for some heavy matrix manipulations. Our cluster shows bandwidth utility up to 9094 and iawer more than 3.8 times that of one PC. For povray benchmark our cluster shows an index of : I38.46, far beyond that of Cray T3E-900 AC64.