Universidad Politcnica de Baja California Juan P Navarro

Universidad Politécnica de Baja California. Juan P. Navarro Sanchez 9 th 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 > There is a wide range of open source software for this. > Implementation the basics of networking, and systems administration 2

The Background > Beowulf cluster > 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 3

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

HPC > High-performance computing uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. 5

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

TSUBAME: The inspiration for this project 7

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Why the cluster? Energy Aerospace research Investigation > Unique 3 D Scientific modeling in research the area Cost effective 10

> > > Scientific research Energy research Virtualization 3 D modeling Aerospace investigation Others 11

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. 12

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The hardware > Switches > Cable > Cluster servers (these are the ones doing all the processing) > Cluster head (scheduling tasks, managing the whole cluster) > Host, user 14

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NVidia Tesla Cards > High parallel capabilities > Low power consumption > Inexpensive compared to other solutions 16

Programming > Students from UPBC can work developing part of the software needed like Matsuoka Satoshi did with the TSUBAME grid. 17

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. 18

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> 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/x 64/x 4600/tsubame. pdf 1 -4. > High Performance Computing (2011). Supercomputing with Tesla GPUs. Retrieved from http: //www. nvidia. com/object/tesla_computing_solutions. h tml 21

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