Cluster Computing Tools Applications and Australian Initiatives for Low Cost Super Computing
Hai Jin, Rajkumar Buyya, Mark Baker · 2000
: Cluster computing has become the paradigm of choice for executing large-scale science, engineering, and commercial applications. This is due to their low cost, high performance, availability of off-the-shelf hardware components and freely accessible software tools that that can be used for developing cluster applications. In this article, we discuss clustercomputing technologies, system architecture, and the software tools for developing applications. We present recent Australian national and state level initiatives (particularly Victorian) and their focus areas. We conclude with a discussion on future directions in cluster computing and briefly mention the initiatives being led by the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC). 1. Introduction During the past decade, many different computer systems supporting high performance computing have emerged. Their taxonomy is based on how their processors, memory, and interconnect are laid out. The most common systems include vector compu...