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Turn your desktop computer into a high-performance cluster with PelicanHPC

CLUTTER TO CLUSTER

Author(s): MAYANK SHARMA

Crunch big numbers with your very own high-performance computing cluster.

If your users are clamoring for the power of a data center but your penurious employer tells you to make do with the hardware you already own, don’t give up hope. With some some time, a little effort, and a few open source tools, you can transform your mild-mannered desktop systems into a number-crunching super computer. For the impatient, the PelicanHPC Live CD will cobble off-the-shelf hardware into a high-performance cluster in no time.

The PelicanHPC project is the natural evolution of ParallelKnoppix, which was a remastered Knoppix with packages for clustering. Michael Creel developed PelicanHPC for his own research work. Creel was interested in learning about clustering, and because adding packages was so easy, he added PVM, cluster tools like ganglia monitor, applications like GROMACS, and so forth. He also included some simple examples of parallel computing in Fortran, C, Python, and Octave to provide some basic working examples for beginners.


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Why not use something real for clustering HPC like Perceus?

Allen Jan 24, 2010 5:47pm GMT

You can download perceus from Infiscale for free or download their own caos linux, their red hat rebuild, or their new ubuntu rebuild and use the same hpc software as the systems at top500.org do. Search google for perceus and see that is is off the hook and also way better than mosix, haha.

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