Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Make your own Supercomputer - Clustering tutorial



An extensive tutorial on Linux clustering, steps for building a cluster and brief description of MPI.

Clustering is the use of multiple computers, typically PCs or UNIX workstations, multiple storage devices, and redundant interconnections, to form what appears to users as a single highly available system. Cluster computing can be used for load balancing as well as for high availability. It is used as a relatively low-cost form of parallel processing machine for scientific and other applications that lend themselves to parallel operations.