Abstract :
The cluster design rules (CDR) helps inexperienced users focus on the most important factors in cluster design. Without it, users must rely on a "cookie cutter" approach that can result in giving up performance unnecessarily. To really determine which cluster design will be best for a particular application, the designer must know what the application does and which hardware architecture will best support the application program, given a set of constraints on budget, space, power, and cooling. Accordingly, we\´ve built the CDR, an expert system with a Web front end that\´s designed to help users build cluster systems suited to their own application codes and available resources.
Keywords :
Internet; expert systems; workstation clusters; Web interface; cluster design rule; expert system; network component; Bandwidth; Delay; Design engineering; Disk drives; Grain size; Memory management; Network synthesis; Network topology; Power system modeling; Switches; cluster computing; grid computing; programming; scientific computing;
