REAL TIME COMPUTING IN A HIGH PERFORMANCE CLUSTER.

The main contribution of the paper is a worst-case response time analysis, its characterization using randomly generated task sets and its verification using a system simulator. The proposed analysis can be applied to a class of distributed real-time systems in which a set of nodes, running tasks under fixed priorities, communicate over a TDMA bus, but it is overly pessimistic in the presence of a significant percentage of communicating tasks.