The Story Behind Midnight, a Part Time High Performance Cluster
Andreas Boklund, Christian Jiresjö, S. Mankefors · 2003
In this paper, we present the creation process and the purpose behind the Midnight cluster. It is disguised as a computer laboratory during the day, but turns into a high performance compute cluster during the night. The main focus of this paper is on the basic issues with creating a part time compute cluster. The Midnight cluster was constructed to serve both as a CPU harvester and as a platform for further studies. The main goal of our upcoming research is to ev aluate different methods for handling shapechange and process management on the cluster, and how these factors affect running processes, stability and performance.