Title
Implementation of a beowulf cluster and analysis of its performance in applications with parallel programming
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Science and Information Organization
Abstract
In the Image Processing Research Laboratory (INTI-Lab) of the Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades, the permission to use the embedded systems laboratory was obtained. INTI-Lab researchers will use this laboratory to do different research related to the processing of large scale videos, climate predictions, climate change research, physical simulations, among others. This type of projects, demand a high complexity in their processes, carried out in ordinary computers that result in an unfavorable time for the researcher. For this reason, one opted for the implementation of a high-performance cluster architecture that is a set of computers interconnected to a local network. This set of computers tries to give a unique behavior to solve complex problems using parallel computing techniques. The intention is to reduce the time directly proportional to the number of machines, giving a similarity of having a low-cost supercomputer. Different performance tests were performed scaling from 1 to 28 computers to measure time reduction. The results will show if it is feasible to use the architecture in future projects that demand processes of high scientific complexity.
Start page
522
End page
527
Volume
10
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Hardware, Arquitectura de computadoras
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85072282859
Source
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
ISSN of the container
2158107X
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