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    A computer cluster is a group of connected computers that work together as a single system. Clusters are used for applications that require large amounts of processing power, such as weather simulation, engineering problems, and genetics research. Clusters provide high performance and availability at a lower cost than single, high-end computers. They can scale indefinitely by adding more nodes and have redundancy so failure of one node does not cause failure of the entire system. Common cluster types include high performance clusters for parallel processing and load-leveling clusters that distribute work across nodes.

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    A computer cluster is a group of connected computers that work together as a single system. Clusters are used for applications that require large amounts of processing power, such as weather simulation, engineering problems, and genetics research. Clusters provide high performance and availability at a lower cost than single, high-end computers. They can scale indefinitely by adding more nodes and have redundancy so failure of one node does not cause failure of the entire system. Common cluster types include high performance clusters for parallel processing and load-leveling clusters that distribute work across nodes.

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    Cluster Computing

    Slides by: Kale Law

    Cluster Computing

    Definition Uses Advantages Design Types of Clusters Connection Types Physical Cluster Interconnects Examples Sources

    Definition

    A computer cluster is a group of linked computers, working together closely so that in many respects they form a single computer. The components of a cluster are commonly, but not always, connected to each other through fast local area networks. Clusters are usually deployed to improve performance and/or availability over that provided by a single computer, while typically being much more cost-effective than single computers of comparable speed or availability.

    Uses

    Medicine / Biochemistry (molecular level simulations) Weather forecasting (ocean current simulation) Engineering problems (car crash simulation etc.) Genetics Research (human genome project) Physics (Quantum simulations)

    Advantages

    Supercomputers are expensive when measured using $/MFlops Workstations are cheap Supercomputers from workstations are cheap (but they may be hard to program) Commercial Of The Shelf (COTS) components May grow infinitely large If one processor fails then the rest survives

    Design

    Which network to use?


    Latency Bandwidth Price Performance (FP) Price Performance: local and remote communication Price

    Which CPU architecture to use?


    Which node architecture to use?


    Space Considerations

    Cooling/ventilation Power required

    Types of Clusters

    High Performance Clusters

    Beowulf; 1000 nodes; parallel programs; MPI Move processes around to borrow cycles (eg. Mosix) LVS; load-level tcp connections; Web pages and applications parallel filesystems; same view of data from each node Oracle Parallel Server;

    Load-leveling Clusters

    Web-Service Clusters

    Storage Clusters

    Database Clusters

    Connection Types

    WAN

    infinitedistance Few kilometers Few meters

    LAN

    SAN

    Physical Cluster Interconnects


    FastEther Gigabit EtherNet 10 Gigabit EtherNet ATM cLan Myrinet Memory Channel SCI Atoll ServerNet

    Examples of cluster computing

    Beowulf Clusters

    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1993 Readily available low cost components, low cost interconnects Best cost/performance ratio Used today Network Of Workstations Early example of cluster computing

    Berkeley NOW

    STFX cs sun cluster Sony Playstation 3

    Protein gene sequencing

    Sources

    Check out http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~hyde/tfcc/vol1no 1-dialog.html for an interesting discussion on the topic http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/vinte r/CC/ Wikipedia

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