Universidad Politécnica de Baja California. Juan P. Navarro Sanchez 9th level English Teacher: Alejandra Acosta The Beowulf Project.

2 My Proposal >This project consists of having the students from the university build a Beowulf style cluster >Can be done with available hardware >There is a wide range of open source software for this. >Implementation the basics of networking, and systems administration

3 The Background >Beowulf cluster >Built in 1994 by Thomas Sterling and Donald Becker for the NASA. >Named after an English poem. >A Beowulf cluster is a group of what are normally identical, commercially available computers, which are running a Free and Open Source Software

4 Cluster >A computer cluster is a group of linked computers, working together closely thus in many respects forming a single computer.

5 HPC >High-performance computing uses supercomputers and comp- uter clusters to solve advanced computation problems.

6 The Grid >Grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common goal.

7 TSUBAME: The inspiration for this project

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10 Why the cluster? >Energy research >3D modeling>Scientific research >Aerospace Investigation >Cost effective >Unique in the area

11 >Scientific research >Energy research >Virtualization >3D modeling >Aerospace investigation >Others

12 The software >Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming model; >Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) programming, execution, and debugging model; >Parallel file system; >Tools to configure, schedule, manage, and tune parallel applications; >Higher level libraries.

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14 The hardware >Switches >Cable >Cluster servers (these are the ones doing all the processing) >Cluster head (scheduling tasks, managing the whole cluster) >Host, user

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16 NVidia Tesla Cards >High parallel capabilities >Low power consumption >Inexpensive compared to other solutions

17 Programming > Students from UPBC can work developing part of the software needed like Matsuoka Satoshi did with the TSUBAME grid.

18 Conclusion >This cluster if ever done would be of great help as it would let us do research and make advances to the technology. >Having this cluster is necessary if the university plans to grow bigger. >Finally the project should be done by the students with supervision from the school teachers, or work side by side with the engineers of the project.

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