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== Big-FE - A cost and power efficient platform for high performance computing education == | == Big-FE - A cost and power efficient platform for high performance computing education == | ||
| − | Alex Lemann(*), Josh McCoy(*), Charles Peck. Cluster Computing Group, Earlham College. | + | Alex Lemann(*), Josh McCoy(*), Tobias McNulty(*), Charles Peck. Cluster Computing Group, Earlham College. |
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| − | There is a shortage of high performance computing resources for educational use. Big-FE, short for Focus on Education, is a complete design and hardware prototype for a cost effective, | + | There is a shortage of high performance computing resources for educational use. Big-FE, short for Focus on Education, is a complete design and hardware prototype for a cost effective, energy efficient, scalable high performance computing resource. Our design is a synergy of the classic Beowulf commodity-off-the-shelf cluster philosophy and the commercial, proprietary blade approach to computational cluster design. Big-FE leverages the strengths of each approach to provide a cost effective computing platform for computational science education. Big-FE uses a diskless compute node architecture running a Liberated Bootable Cluster CD single system image. |
| − | We measure | + | We measure the energy consumption of the Big-FE prototype and compare it with popular commercial high performance computing platforms. Our physical layout is organized to minimize both maintenance and cooling costs. We detail the cost structure, both up-front and on-going, and estimated performance for Big-FE and compare these with popular commercial high performance computing platforms. |
===Notes=== | ===Notes=== | ||
Revision as of 14:14, 12 May 2006
Big-FE - A cost and power efficient platform for high performance computing education
Alex Lemann(*), Josh McCoy(*), Tobias McNulty(*), Charles Peck. Cluster Computing Group, Earlham College.
Abstract:
There is a shortage of high performance computing resources for educational use. Big-FE, short for Focus on Education, is a complete design and hardware prototype for a cost effective, energy efficient, scalable high performance computing resource. Our design is a synergy of the classic Beowulf commodity-off-the-shelf cluster philosophy and the commercial, proprietary blade approach to computational cluster design. Big-FE leverages the strengths of each approach to provide a cost effective computing platform for computational science education. Big-FE uses a diskless compute node architecture running a Liberated Bootable Cluster CD single system image.
We measure the energy consumption of the Big-FE prototype and compare it with popular commercial high performance computing platforms. Our physical layout is organized to minimize both maintenance and cooling costs. We detail the cost structure, both up-front and on-going, and estimated performance for Big-FE and compare these with popular commercial high performance computing platforms.
Notes
- Topics to include:
- Power consumption
- Packaging and density
- Cost of purchasing
- Cost of ownership
