The SHRIMP (Scalable High-performance Really Inexpensive Multi-Processor) project investigates how to construct high-performance servers with a network of commodity PCs, and commodity operating systems. The cost of such a multicomputer server is substantially less than a commercial, custom-designed multicomputer. The goal is to study how to build such a system to deliver performance competitive with or better than the commercial multicomputer servers.

The research project consists of several components: user-level, protected communication, efficient message-passing, shared virtual memory, distributed file system, performance measurement, scalable 3-D graphics, and applications.

The software for myrinet clusters running Windows NT is now available.

Last Updated : March 22, 1999

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