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Designing a Low Cost and Scalable PC Cluster System for HPC Environment

Published on August 2012 by Laxman S. Naik
International Conference on Advances in Communication and Computing Technologies 2012
Foundation of Computer Science USA
ICACACT - Number 1
August 2012
Authors: Laxman S. Naik
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Laxman S. Naik . Designing a Low Cost and Scalable PC Cluster System for HPC Environment. International Conference on Advances in Communication and Computing Technologies 2012. ICACACT, 1 (August 2012), 23-25.

@article{
author = { Laxman S. Naik },
title = { Designing a Low Cost and Scalable PC Cluster System for HPC Environment },
journal = { International Conference on Advances in Communication and Computing Technologies 2012 },
issue_date = { August 2012 },
volume = { ICACACT },
number = { 1 },
month = { August },
year = { 2012 },
issn = 0975-8887,
pages = { 23-25 },
numpages = 3,
url = { /proceedings/icacact/number1/7969-1005/ },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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Abstract

In recent years many organizations are trying to design an advanced computing environment to get the high performance. Also, the small academic institutions are wishing to develop an effective computing and digital communication environment. It creates problems in getting the required powerful hardware components and softwares because the high level servers and workstations are very expensive. It is not affordable to purchase the high level servers and workstations for the small academic institutions. In this paper we have proposed a low cost and scalable PC cluster system by using the Commodity off the Shelf Personal Computers and free open source softwares.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Pc Cluster Parallel Virtual File System High Performance Computing