Determination of the performance of a beowulf cluster by modelling the heat transfer in parallel through a two-dimensional body
Loading...
Date
2009
Authors
Sugathadasa, C. A.
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
University of Peradeniya
Abstract
Cluster computing had become the alternative choice for executing large scale Science, Engineering and Commercial applications. This was due to there low cost, high performance, availability of commodity off-the-shelf hardware components and freely accessible software tools that can be used to develop cluster applications. In this report, I gathered the information about Beowulf cluster applications, Architectures, Network Topologies, history of Beowulf clusters, programming techniques, Hardware considerations, performance indices and followed the guidelines implemented by various institutions.
Then I attempted to construct a diskless Beowulf cluster but my attempt was not succeeded. Finally, I built a Beowulf cluster with disk nodes. I used the parallel programme which demonstrated heat transfer in parallel through a two dimensional body to measure performance (Efficiency) of the proposed cluster. First, parallel programme was run in single PC, again it was run using the cluster as following manner.
1) Master Node + single Node
2) Master Node + Two Nodes
3) Master Node + Three Nodes
I found that time for completion of task significantly reduced when increasing nodes to the cluster.
In this report I presented method which I used to build the cluster and methods which I used to measure performance of the cluster using parallel program.
Description
Keywords
Statistics and Computer Science