Water an N-body Simulation Program on a Distributed Architecture

This report describes the implementation of Water, an N-body simulation program that runs on a distributed architecture. It is ported from a shared memory implementation. The program is written in C and runs on a pool of idle workstations under the Amoeba distributed operating system. The results show that an efficient implementation of a realistic numerical application program on a distributed architecture is possible. Speedups of 72 on 80 processors are measured.

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