CSE 557
Spring 2000
Solution for Assignment #2

Anirudh Modi

Abstract:

This work attempts to determine the performance characteristics of a network of workstations. A simple program is written in C to determine the peak processing speed and the cache sizes (L1 and/or L2) of a given workstation. Another C program using the MPI libraries incorporating message send/receives is used to determine the message start-up time, incremental message cost and the communication bandwidth of a given network of workstations (NOWs). The variation of the communication bandwidth with the number of processors is studied.