Application of Distributed Computing With Openmosix on Complex Numerical Method Problem

Abstract

Numerical method is being widely used in almost every major engineering field. But its use also increase the demand for faster computation power. Few solution to those power is supercomputer. But the price of supercomputer creates big burden. Other alternatives come in from distributed computing world. Where cluster can be built using commodity hardware. One of known implementation is using openMosix, a load balancing cluster, that even can be implemented on a live CD. This research tries to answer how is the performance on this cluster on complex problem of numerical method, especially on the field of big linear equation system, where there are millions or even billions of operation needed to be done. The results of the research reveals that on heterogeneous environment, where there are computers with better specification would significantly reduce time needed to solve the problem compare to single computer and homogeneous environment.