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Proc International Confer ence on Distributed Comput ing Systems pp Poznan Poland June Design and Performance Evaluation of a Distributed  Eigenvalue Solver on a Workstation Cluster C Tretz CC Huang PK McKinley TY Li Z Zeng Department of Computer Science Department of Mathematics Michigan State University Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan East Lansing Michigan Abstract decrease the time required to solve many problems has Clusters of highp erformance workstations are emerg started to dominate the sup ercomputer industry One ing as promising platforms for parallel scientic com trend in sup ercomputer architectures has b een towards puting This pap er describ es an eigenvalue solver for the use of massively paral lel computers MPCs symmetric tridiagonal matrices as implemented on a As an alternative to MPCs there has recently cluster of workstations using two dierent interpro cess emerged increasing interest in using clusters of work communication packages PVM and P The algo stations for parallel scientic computing The rea rithm is based on the splitmerge technique which