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ifi-tr-92.07                   (available electronically as ifi-92.07.ps.Z)

Abstract

The typical workstation in a LAN is idle during large periods of time. 
Under the concept of a hypercomputer this unused, distributed computing power
can be put at the disposal of the user. The dynamic, heterogeneous, and 
distributed environment calls for a platform taking care of transparency,
parallelization, load balancing and other issues. We describe such a system 
which, by optimized design and dynamic load distribution, proves faster 
than many related approaches. Performance measurements and an analytic model 
on scalability are presented for an explicit finite difference PDE solver.


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