Design of a Portable Cluster Supercomputer for Particle Image Velocimetry Data Processing
Thomas Häuser, Mark A. Perl · Journal of Aerospace Computing Information and Communication · 2008
Inthispaper,wepresentthedesignofaportableclustersupercomputercreatedspecifically forprocessingparticleimagevelocimetryimagedata.Tomakethiscomputersystemportable for a laboratory environment, it is designed to run on minimal power, to be lightweight, and portable. The hardware configuration consists of 12 processing nodes with a total of 48 processor cores, one master node with five terabytes of disk storage, and a gigabit ethernet interconnect.The total configuration along with a rugged transportation case has an approximate gross weight of 390lb and works on one standard 120V, 20A electric circuit. With this cluster computer, a speedup of 28 relative to standard serial processing of a large particle image velocimetry data set was achieved.