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Processing element allocation is a fundamental service for the efficiency and performance of today's partitionable scalable high performance computing (SHPC) systems. In this paper we give an overview of different partitioning policies and introduce a Partition Management Tool (PMT) we developed. PMT could be integrated into the Intel Paragon's ParAide tool environment and is a major step towards an easy and efficient partition management.
We thank Bernhard Ries (of the Intel European Supercomputer Development Center ESDC, Munich, Germany) for his support and advice.
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Günther, H., Brockners, F., Bemmerl, T. (1995). System management tools for SHPC systems — Partition management. In: Hertzberger, B., Serazzi, G. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 919. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0046605
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