Types of Clusters

• HPTC (High-Performance Technical Computing)

  • Parallel decomposition of compute intensive programs: (i.e. weather modeling, seismic analysis, mathematical computations)
  • Attributes:
    • Application modified to fit parallel computing paradigm (ie MPI, comm protocols, recovery, etc)
    • Weak data integrity semantics
  • Beowulf - 100’s of nodes

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