AMRAPALI INSTITUTE

Vinay Kumar
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CSE 4th Year

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 Introduction.
Cluster and Supercomputers. Cluster Types and Advantages.

Cluster Performance.

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 Group of computers and servers (connected together)

that act like a single system.

Each system is called a Node.

Node contain one or more Processor , Ram ,Hard disk and

LAN card.

Nodes work in Parallel. We can increase performance by adding more Nodes.

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 A supercomputer is a computer that performs at or

near the currently highest operational rate for computers.

A supercomputer is typically used for scientific and

engineering applications that must handle very large databases or do a great amount of computation.
IBM's Roadrunner is the fastest supercomputer in the

world.
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 Load Balancing Cluster ( High Performance Cluster).

Visualization Clusters.
Grid Computing.

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 It increases computer performance exponentially by

sharing the workload, spreading any given task among different cluster nodes.
serial and parallel.

The two main types of jobs that are run on HPC clusters are

Parallel jobs break the problem up into parts and use a

communication layer to spread the workload among many machines and processors. to other nodes.

A serial job runs on one machine with no communication

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Cluster types: Load Balancing Cluster

Task

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Running Program(sequential)
Working

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Running Program(sequential)
Working

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Running Program(sequential)
Working

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Running Program(sequential)

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Running Program(Parallel)

Data sent

Data sent

Data sent

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Running Program(Parallel)
Working Working

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Running Program(Parallel)
Finished Results Get results Results

Finished

Finished
Results

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 A visualization cluster is an HPC cluster with addition of

powerful graphics cards.

Used to tackle high-resolution and real-time simulations. Weather forecasting DNA sequence analysis Climate and environmental modeling
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Geographical overview using Dells LongHorn Visualization Cluster.

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 A grid ties many types of resources together in

differing locations.
These resources can be entire clusters. A grid allows an organization to pool multiple

computing resources: HPC clusters, visualization clusters, workstation and instruments.

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The Control Node sends the tasks to other computers that are connected to each other through an internetwork.
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 Performance.
Scalability. Maintenance.

Cost.

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 The performance of a cluster depends on the

performance of the systems in the cluster and the network that connects them.
Monitoring cluster performance requires a scalable

monitoring solution that integrates network and system monitoring.

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