Cluster Computer

Recent advances in the development of high performance microprocessors and high speed networks make clusters of  PCs an appealing low cost platform for parallel computing. Advantages of Cluster Technology are: low cost commodity supercomputing, stable software, using de-facto-standards from open source, Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), Linux, Network File System, and scalability

A cluster computer system was installed in our center in 2008 with following specifications

16 node HP blade system

5365 Intel Xeon CPUs: 128 core 3GHz

RAM:: 64 Gigabyte

OS: Linux