Abstract
Current PC-based computing systems can offer relatively inexpensive but powerful parallel distributed processing environment and it becomes reasonable to use a PC-cluster system for some heavy scientific computations which required an engineering workstation or a large parallel processing machine. In this paper, incompressible around a Wells turbine, which is commonly used for the wave power system, is computed with a small PC-cluster system. Speedup rate to single processor environment and the efficiency of parallel computation are presented, and some of the merits and demerits of the PC-cluster system are discussed.
