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Cluster computing: the commodity supercomputer

✍ Scribed by Mark Baker; Rajkumar Buyya

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 174 KB
Volume: 29
Category: Article
ISSN: 0038-0644
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-024x(199905)29:6<551::aid-spe248>3.0.co;2-c

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✦ Synopsis

The availability of high-speed networks and increasingly powerful commodity microprocessors is making the usage of clusters, or networks, of computers an appealing vehicle for cost effective parallel computing. Clusters, built using Commodity-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware components as well as free, or commonly used, software, are playing a major role in redefining the concept of supercomputing. In this paper we discuss the reasons why COTS-based clusters are becoming popular environments for running supercomputing applications. We describe the current enabling technologies and present four state-of-theart cluster-based projects. Finally, we summarise our findings and draw a number of conclusions relating to the usefulness and likely future of cluster computing.

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