
Clusters of workstations/PCs connected by o?-the-shelf networks have become popular as platforms for cost-e'ective parallel computing. Technological - vances in both hardware and software have made such a network-based parallel computingplatform an a'ordable alternative to commercial...


Clusters of workstations/PCs connected by o?-the-shelf networks have become popular as a platform for cost-e'ective parallel computing. Hardware and so- ware technological advances have made this network-based parallel computing platform feasible. A large number of research groups...