Diskless HPC cluster for parallel & Grid computing on fedora

Author

Victoria, Toro ; Waldyd, A. V Nestor

Author_Institution

Grupo de Investig. Ambientales (GIA), Univ. Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), Colombia

fYear

2009

fDate

10-11 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

This article gives you a detailed guide for the construction of a Diskless HPC Cluster using Fedora as Operative System. The final purpose of the Cluster is to run both RAMS (Regional Atmospheric Modelling System) and CAMx (Comprehensive Air quality Model with extensions) Numerical Models in a Parallel and/or Grid manner. Themes ranging from CPU Architecture Selection, passing by Operative System Configuration to Cluster Final Tuning are treated in this article. The information presented here, may be used to construct both a Diskless HPC or a Beowulf Cluster with Parallel and/or Grid computing capabilities, intended to run Numerical Models or any other MPI capable application using an UNIX distribution.

Keywords

grid computing; workstation clusters; Beowulf cluster; CAMx; Fedora; MPI capable; UNIX distribution; cluster final tuning; comprehensive air quality model with extensions; diskless HPC cluster; grid computing; operative system configuration; parallel computing; regional atmospheric modelling system; Application software; Atmospheric modeling; Computer architecture; Grid computing; High definition video; Libraries; Numerical models; Parallel processing; Read-write memory; Testing; Clustering methods; distributed computing; modeling; parallel processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2009. LATINCOM '09. IEEE Latin-American Conference on

Conference_Location

Medellin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4387-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4388-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LATINCOM.2009.5305074

Filename

5305074