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Supercomputing in Plain English What is a Cluster?

Supercomputing in Plain English What is a Cluster?. Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Education Program May 23 – June 4 2010. What is a Cluster?. “… [W]hat a ship is … It's not just a keel and hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs. But what a ship is ... is freedom.”

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Supercomputing in Plain English What is a Cluster?

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  1. Supercomputing in Plain English What is a Cluster? Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Education Program May 23 – June 4 2010

  2. What is a Cluster? “… [W]hat a ship is … It's not just a keel and hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs. But what a ship is ... is freedom.” – Captain Jack Sparrow “Pirates of the Caribbean” Supercomputing in Plain English: What is a Cluster? BWUPEP2010, UIUC, May 23 - June 4 2010

  3. What a Cluster is …. A cluster needs of a collection of small computers, called nodes, hooked together by an interconnection network (or interconnect for short). It also needs software that allows the nodes to communicate over the interconnect. But what a cluster is … is all of these components working together as if they’re one big computer ... a super computer. Supercomputing in Plain English: What is a Cluster? BWUPEP2010, UIUC, May 23 - June 4 2010

  4. An Actual Cluster Interconnect Nodes Supercomputing in Plain English: What is a Cluster? BWUPEP2010, UIUC, May 23 - June 4 2010

  5. Thanks for your attention!Questions?

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