HPC, High Performance Computing using Linux
Distributed compilation
DistCC… DistCC Knoppix… (Live CD)
The opposite is one PC or server and several display cards, tangents, mice and screens.
Study this 6-headed PC solution… for small offices and family (group) computing.
Because there’s no reason to keep the CPU idle.
Cluster and grid computing
| define:Cluster computing… | define:Grid computing… | define:Supercomputer… |
define:FLOPS… |
Under $2500 supercomputers:
Build a Supercomputer for under $100 / GFLOP… (direct link…) + detailed articles on ClusterMonkey.net and ZDnet…
And the amazing Little Fe.. + yet another low cost cluster solution…
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CL distributions… Clusterbuilder.org Clustering part 1…
One Head -> many Nodes. (IOW: Master host -> several Drones)
Cluster Knoppix… 2… ParallelKnoppix… Clusterix… Other…(Live CDs)
Beowulf, Hive structure (IOW: Queen-node, Bees and Drones)
| define: Beowulf computing… |
Beowulf.org Howto… and the Book…
How to build a Beowulf cluster ? 2… Solving…
| define: Rocks cluster… |
Rocks’ CL system… <–is kind of —UIT’s cluster realm (Tromsø)… <–show– Live status… of. UiT’s HPC page…
| define: Oscar open cluster… |
Oscar open cluster…
Cluster management
Mosix cluster manager…. OpenMosix… + Mosix 1-2-3…
Cluster Manager…(LCM) Condor…
Communication
InfiniBand highway…
Communicate via TIPC…
Share disks and memory
NuMA… Local and remote memory (AoE…) AoE… 2…. ATA (fast disk access) over Ethernet
PV-FS 2…
Oracle OCFS2… Oracle Cloud ICS / OIC RedHat GFS… ( GFS… ) IBM GPFS…