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1、AHighSpeedDisk-to-DisksortonaWindowsNTclusterrunningHPVMLuisRiveraDepartmentofComputerScienceUniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaignlrivera@cs.uiuc.eduAndrewA.ChienDepartmentofComputerScienceandEngineeringUniversityofCalifornia,SanDiegoachien@cs.ucsd.eduAbstractperformance,astheoverallsort
2、ingtimeisoftendom-inatedbythetimetodotheI/O{eitherforanoutWedescribetheporting,redesign,andtuningofahighofcoresort,orthetimetoreadtheinputandwriteperformancedisk-to-diskparallelsortonageneralpur-theoutput.poseMyrinetconnectedPCclusterrunningWindowsNT.Asonesuche ort,wesetouttodevelopahighT
3、hisclusteremploysthehighspeedcommunicationofperformancesortingprogramforourHPVM[6]Win-FastMessages(fromtheHPVMsystem).Thestudyex-dowsNTcluster,bothtodemonstratehighperfor-posestheperformancelimitationsandkeyarchitecturalissuesinachievinghighperformance.KeydistinguishingmancesortingonCOTSc
4、lustersandtoevaluateourfeaturesofoure ortincludetheuseofMPI,Windowssoftwareandhardwareclustersystems,comparingNTandtheHPVMsoftware.Oure ortbuildsonthethemtosimilarsystems.WefocusontheMinute-BerkeleyNOWSort,adaptedandtunedforanHPVMSortbenchmark,avariantoftheDatamationsort,NT-cluster.andint
5、roducedin1994bythecreatorsofAlphaSortUsing60nodes,wesorted10.3GBin56.51seconds[14]asaconstanttimebenchmark,becauseito eredbreakingthefastestpublishedMinutesortrecordofwhichtheopportunitytoevaluateourworkwithsimilar1weareaware.Eachmachineinourclusterconsistedofworksandenvironmentsforthesam
6、ebenchmark.Atdualprocessor,300MHzPentiumII's,with512MBofthetimewebegan,thecurrentholderoftheMinute-memory,makingpossibletheuseofaonepasssort,andSortrecordwastheBerkeleyNOWSort[7,8],whichasingle4.5GB10000RPMdisks.sorted8.41GBonaclusterof95UltraSPARCsys-temsconnectedby0.64GbpsMyrinet.Oursta
7、rtingpointwastheNOWSort,whichwe1IntroductionportedandadaptedfortheHPVMsoftware,theClustersofcommodityPC'sorworkstationshaveWindowsNToperatingsystemandtoourhard-achievedsuccessandpopularityintheacademicwarecon gurationTheportinginvolvedrewritingworldandmostrecentlyin
