The goal of this report is to survey state of the art and existing approaches for parallel programming on workstation clusters with special emphasis on object{oriented programming. First, workstation clusters as parallel computing platforms are characterized and fundamental concepts for parallel programming are discussed. Then, an overview of existing tools, systems, languages, and environments...

The goal of this paper is to determine how e ciently we can implement an adequate parallel programming environment on a workstation cluster without modifying the existing operating system. We have implemented a runtime environment for parallel programs and gang-scheduling on a workstation cluster. In this paper, we report the techniques used to implement gang-scheduling on a workstation cluster...

Workstation clusters are becoming more popular as a parallel computing platform. Several programming libraries, including Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), allow workstation clusters to be programmed as a single parallel computer. The performance of parallel programs is often affected by complex interactions between hardware and software. Performance prediction tools can help characterize the per...

We investigate the potential of workstation clusters for use in high performance computation for some selected applications. Currently, the network speed found in most of the existing systems is quite low, but higher speed networks are already emerging in the market. We present four parallel algorithms that performed astonishingly well on a cluster of workstations connected by Ethernet. Three o...

We present novel hardand software that efficiently implements communication primitives for parallel execution on workstation clusters. We provide low communication latencies, minimal protocol, zero operating system overhead, and high throughput. With this technology, it is possible to build effective parallel systems using off-the-shelf workstations. Our goal is to develop a standard interfaceb...

We present novel hard-and software that eeciently implements communication primitives for parallel execution on workstation clusters. We provide low communication latencies, minimal protocol , zero operating system overhead, and high throughput. With this technology, it is possible to build eeective parallel systems using oo-the-shelf workstations. Our goal is to develop a standard interfaceboa...

The low cost and availability of clusters of workstations have lead researchers to re-explore distributed computing using independent workstations. This approach may provide better cost/ performance than tightly coupled multiprocessors. In practice, this approach often utilizes wasted cycles to run parallel jobs. In this paper we address the feasibility and limitation of such a nondedicated par...