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Universidad Politécnica de Baja California.

Universidad Politécnica de Baja California. Juan P. Navarro Sanchez 9th level English Teacher: Alejandra Acosta The Beowulf Project. My Proposal. This project consists of having the students from the university build a Beowulf style cluster Can be done with available hardware

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Universidad Politécnica de Baja California.

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  1. Universidad Politécnica de Baja California. Juan P. Navarro Sanchez 9th level English Teacher: Alejandra Acosta The Beowulf Project.

  2. My Proposal • This project consists of having the students from the university build a Beowulf style cluster • Can be done with available hardware • There is a wide range of open source software for this. • Implementation the basics of networking, and systems administration

  3. TheBackground • Beowulfcluster • Built in 1994 by Thomas Sterling and Donald Becker for the NASA. • Named after an English poem. • A Beowulf cluster is a group of what are normally identical, commercially available computers, which are running a Free and Open Source Software

  4. Cluster • A computer cluster is a group of linked computers, working together closely thus in many respects forming a single computer.

  5. HPC • High-performance computing uses supercomputers and comp-uterclusters to solve advanced computation problems.

  6. TheGrid • Grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common goal. 

  7. TSUBAME: Theinspirationforthisproject

  8. Whythecluster? • Energy research • Aerospace Investigation • 3D modeling • Scientific research • Unique in the area • Cost effective

  9. Scientific research • Energy research • Virtualization • 3D modeling • Aerospace investigation • Others

  10. The software • Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming model; • Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) programming, execution, and debugging model; • Parallel file system; • Tools to configure, schedule, manage, and tune parallel applications; • Higher level libraries.

  11. The hardware • Switches • Cable • Cluster servers (these are the ones doing all the processing) • Cluster head (scheduling tasks, managing the whole cluster) • Host, user

  12. NVidia Tesla Cards • High parallel capabilities • Low power consumption • Inexpensive compared to other solutions

  13. Programming • Students from UPBC can work developing part of the software needed like Matsuoka Satoshi did with the TSUBAME grid.

  14. Conclusion • This cluster if ever done would be of great help as it would let us do research and make advances to the technology. • Having this cluster is necessary if the university plans to grow bigger. • Finally the project should be done by the students with supervision from the school teachers, or work side by side with the engineers of the project.

  15. REFERENCES • Lou, C., Wu, L., Yi, O. (2002). Application of parallel virtual machine framework to the strong prime problem. Journal of Computer Math, 79(7), 797–806. doi: 10.1080/ 00207160290029228 • Banerjee, S., Mukherjee, I., Manhati, P. (2009). Cloud Computing Initiative using Modified Ant Colony Framework. World Academy of Science. 56(2), 221-224. • Leigh, J., Brown, M. (2008). Merging Real and Virtual Worlds. Comunications of the ACM, 51(1), 82-85. • Axelsson S. (2002). Intrusion detection systems: A survey and taxonomy. Technical Report, 18, 231-241

  16. Enlanger, L., Lackow, A. (2006). High-Performance Computing: Supercharging the Enterprise. Retrieved from http://www.infoworld.com/ 20-23. • Linz, J. (2001). Analysis on Supercomputers and Clusters. World Scientific Publishing. 11(2-3), 252-262. • Clement, T. (2009). Unleashing the Potential of High- Performance Clusters. Retrieved from http://www.scientificcomputing.com/ 18-22. • Bell, G., Gray, J. (2002). What’s Next in High-Performance Computing?. Communications of the ACM. 45(2), 91-95.

  17. Tokyo Institute of Technology Global Scientific Information and Computing Center. (2010). What is STUBAME. Retrieved from http://www.gsic.titech.ac.jp/en/tsubame • The STUBAME Grid (2006). Redefining Supercomputing. Retrieved from http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4600/tsubame.pdf 1-4. • High Performance Computing (2011). Supercomputing with Tesla GPUs. Retrieved from http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_computing_solutions.html

  18. Thankyou

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