Presented by: Yash Gurung, ICFAI UNIVERSITY.Sikkim BUILDING of 3 R'sCLUSTER PARALLEL COMPUTER
Dec 18, 2015
Introduction:Parallel computing may be defined as the
simultaneous use of several processors to execute a computer program.
There two types of parallel architectures Shared memory multiprocessor(SMP) Cluster Parallel Computer
Cluster:A cluster is simply a “stack” of processor
machines usually mounted in a rack.The stack is configured such that one
machine is designated the head node and a file server node to all the other machines.
Client nodes technically known as slave nodes are connected, via an internal network
Literature ReviewBewulf Cluster Project: was started at the
Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences NASA in early 1994.
Hardware Configuration specification:One Master Node: Two Pentium III 1GHz CPU, 512M RAM, three
3Com 3c905c Ethernet cards, one 30G bytes hard disk, one floppy, one VGA card, one monitor
One NFS and NFS Root Server Node: Two Pentium III 1GHz CPU, 512M RAM, two 3Com
3c905c Ethernet cards, one 30G bytes hard disk, one floppy, one VGA card, one monitor
11 Client Nodes: One Pentium III 1GHz CPU, 512M RAM, two 3Com
3c905c Ethernet cards, no hard disk, one floppy, one VGA cards (for debugging)
2 Hubs D-Link DES-1016R, D-Link DFE-916DX
Software Configuration specification:Operating system: Red Hat 6.2 Network booting: Etherboot-4.0 Parallel computing: Message Passing
Interface mpich-1.2.1
SUGAR CLUSTER:The Syracuse group has constructed a 320 CPU
node parallel computer called the SUGAR cluster. It consists of
Head nodes: 6 Sun X2200-M2 computers, each containing two Dual-Core AMD Opteron 2.6 GHz processors
Compute nodes: Eighty servers each with one quad core Intel 2.4 GHz Xeon CPU and 8 Gb of RAM provide a total of 320 CPU cores and 640 Gb of RAM for the cluster
Cluster storage is provided by four file servers, each with 24 Tb of disk storage
ALICE CLUSTER:a cluster of 64 dual-processor Pentium Pros
running at 200 MHzAll PCs are connected through a central
Fast Ethernet switchIn addition, there is a master node, a file
server, and 4 development nodes.
Justification: The three R’s: Reuse. Reduce. Recycle.
Building of a computer by reusing the hardware components of the unused computers
Methodology:1. Survey and Collection of functional
hardware and both software components from various sources.
2. Assembling of the components into a functional unit.
3. Designing a layout for the final product.4. Loading of necessary Softwares.5. Analysis and testing of the product.
Conclusion:It is certain that building a new computer
by recyling the out of use hardware product, will invite lot of problems regarding the various issues that are related with the designing, implenting etc.
But it is still encouraging to construct a working computer then not to use it all.