Construction of PC Cluster and Performance Evaluation of Parallel Computing
Zheng Xiu-hong · Journal of Shenyang University of Chemical Technology · 2011
Along with the extensive use of parallel computing in diverse research areas,nowadays,cluster has been demonstrated to be the main trend of parallel computing systems inevitably.Compared with the expensive specialized cluster,the versatile cluster constructed with PC owning the high cost performance.This paper concentrated on how to build a diminutive PC cluster based on the Linux operating system with 10 PCs and the high-speed Ethernet network under the existing conditions.The detailed process of software configurations was elaborated.In order to evaluate the performance of the system,an example solving the pi implmented using parallel algorithm was given.The result showed that the powerful speed obtained by the cluster was relying on making the full use of the hardware resources in existence.At the same time,a good performance with higher parallel speedup and efficiency was achieved as expected.It was an efficient way to get high-performance computing with low cost by this means.And it provided us with an expansive flatform for the further research on parallel computing in future.