Some key techniques for parallel cluster computing system

Cluster of workstations (COW) is becoming an important kind of parallel computing platform and has been paid more and more attention by many countries in the world. Some key techniques including communication among the nodes, load balancing and scheduling, parallel compiling, parallel debugging, fault recovery and parallel programming environment for developing COW and the new advances in these techniques are analyzed in detail in this paper. The research results of TH COW and their comparison with related works are also given. Finally, this paper discuss the application and perspective of the cluster computing technologies.