The Construction and Test for a Small Beowulf Parallel Computing System

Abstract

As a practical scheme carrying out the high performance computing tasks for small research groups and personal researchers, we propose a small Beowulf PC-cluster parallel system based on MPI and Windows by employing a set of PCs and 100M Ethernet. The experimental evaluations on the classical case of computing π show that the system has satisfactory speedup and parallel efficiency. Owing to the 100M Ethernet which has less bandwidth and more communication delay, the speedup and parallel efficiency will come down with increasing working nodes, and a more excellent high speed network should be build.