New Experiments Towards to Performance Comparison Between CISC and RISC Architecture Cluster Environments

Abstract

This research paper discusses performance issues of RISC and CISC architecture based cluster systems and one grid computing system built based on former two cluster systems. A number of benchmark programs were executed in these computing systems, in order to proceed further analysis of experimental results of same benchmark programs and applications. We could observe that, depending on the nature of the given problem, best results can be shown for a given class of architecture cluster computing platform. As matter of comparison of two cluster systems, analysis from the experimental results indicates that x86 based architecture machines can be the inexpensive workstation clusters, but Apple’s PowerMac G5 workstation based cluster systems is potentially recommended for a high performance scientific computations. Additionally, we also shown that grid technology is viable by increasing total system performance at no additional cost for its implementation.