Teaching high-performance service in a cluster computing course

Teaching High-Performance Computing on a High-Performance Cluster

Cluster Computing: A High-Performance Contender

W hen you first heard people speak of Piles of PCs, the first thing that came to mind may have been a cluttered computer room with processors, monitors, and snarls of cables all around. Collections of computers have undoubtedly become more sophisticated than in the early days of shared drives and modem connections. No matter what you call them—Clusters of Workstations (COW), Networks of Worksta...

Developing High Performance Computing Resources for Teaching Cluster and Grid Computing Courses

High-Performance Computing (HPC) and the ability to process large amounts of data are of paramount importance for UK business and economy as outlined by Rt Hon David Willetts MP at the HPC and Big Data conference in February 2014. However there is a shortage of skills and available training in HPC to prepare and expand the workforce for the HPC and Big Data research and development. Currently, ...

Cluster Approach to High Performance Computing

The High Performance Computing (HPC) allows scientists and engineers to deal with very complex problems using fast computer hardware and specialized software. Since often these problems require hundreds or even thousands of processor hours to complete, an approach, based on the use of supercomputers, has been traditionally adopted. Recent tremendous increase in a speed of PC-type computers open...

High Performance Statistical Cluster Computing with R

The re-emergence of large out-of-core datasets as well as the common usage of simulation methods including bootstrap and MCMC algorithms have resulted in timeconsuming computations. One solution to this problem, when feasible, is to break up the computation into small, quickly computable pieces. We discuss both some of the practical applications, as well as tools which facilitate these applicat...