{"title":"Enabling Automated Deployment for Cluster Computing in Distributed PC Classrooms","authors":"Shuen-Tai Wang, Ying-Chuan Chen, Hsi-Ya Chang","volume":65,"journal":"International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","pagesStart":669,"pagesEnd":674,"ISSN":"1307-6892","URL":"https:\/\/publications.waset.org\/pdf\/1719","abstract":"
The rapid improvement of the microprocessor and network has made it possible for the PC cluster to compete with conventional supercomputers. Lots of high throughput type of applications can be satisfied by using the current desktop PCs, especially for those in PC classrooms, and leave the supercomputers for the demands from large scale high performance parallel computations. This paper presents our development on enabling an automated deployment mechanism for cluster computing to utilize the computing power of PCs such as reside in PC classroom. After well deployment, these PCs can be transformed into a pre-configured cluster computing resource immediately without touching the existing education\/training environment installed on these PCs. Thus, the training activities will not be affected by this additional activity to harvest idle computing cycles. The time and manpower required to build and manage a computing platform in geographically distributed PC classrooms also can be reduced by this development.<\/p>\r\n","references":"[1] R. Buyya (ed.), \"High Performance Cluster Computing: Systems and\r\nArchitectures,\" Prentice Hall, 1999.\r\n[2] C. Reschke, T. Sterling, D. Ridge, D. Savarse, D. Becker, P. Merkey, \"A Design Study of Alternative Network Topologies for the Beowulf Parallel Workstation,\" Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on\r\nHigh Performance Distributed Computing, (1996).\r\n[3] T. Sterling, D. Becker, and D. Savarese,\"Beowulf: A Parallel Workstation\r\nfor Scientific Computation,\" Proceedings of the Fourth 1995 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Vol. 1,\r\npp.111-14 (1995).\r\n[4] A. Apon, R. Buyya, H. Jin, and J. Mache, \"Cluster Computing in the\r\nClassroom: Topics, Guidelines, and Experiences\"\r\n[5] Message Passing Interface Forum, \"MPI: A message-passing interface\r\nstandard,\" International Journal of Supercomputer Applications 8 (3\/4) (1994) 165-414\r\n[6] P. M. Papadopoulous, M. J. Katz, and G. Bruno, \"NPACI Rocks: Tools\r\nand techniques for easily deploying manageable Linux clusters,\" In IEEE\r\nCluster 2001, October 2001.\r\n[7] P. Uthayopas, T. Angsakul, and J. Maneesilp. \"System management\r\nframework and tools for beowulf cluster,\" In Proceedings of\r\nHPCAsia2000, Beijing, May 2000.\r\n[8] Open Cluster Group, \"OSCAR: A packaged cluster software stack for\r\nhigh performance computing,\" http:\/\/www.openclustergroup.org.\r\n[9] C. Y. Tu, W. C. Kuo, Y. T. Wang, Steven Shiau, \"E2CC: Building energy\r\nefficient ClassCloud using DRBL,\" in Grid '09: Proceedings of the 10th\r\nannual international conferenceon Grid Computing. Banff, AB, Canada: IEEE Computer Society, 2009, pp. 189-195.\r\n[10] P. Barham, B. Dragovic, K. Fraser, S. Hand, T. Harris, A. Ho, R.\r\nNeugebauer, I. Pratt, and A. Warfield, \"Xen and the Art of\r\nVirtualization,\" In Proc. 19th SOSP, Lake George, NY, Oct 2003.\r\n[11] PXELINUX, http:\/\/syslinux.zytor.com\/wiki\/index.php\/PXELINUX.\r\n[12] NCHC, National Center for High-performance Computing,\r\nhttp:\/\/www.nchc.org.tw\r\n[13] Wake-on-LAN, http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wake-on-LAN\r\n[14] TORQUE Resource Manager,\r\nhttp:\/\/www.clusterresources.com\/products\/torque-resource-manager.ph.\r\n[15] I. Foster, C. Kesselman, S. Tuecke, \"The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling\r\nScalable Virtual Organisations',\" International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 15 (3). p. 200-222. 2001\r\n[16] P. Armstrong, \u201cBuilding a Scheduler Adapter for the GridWay\r\nMetascheduler,\u201d Faculty of Engineering Summer 2006 Work Term\r\nReport\r\n[17] I. Foster and C. Kesselman, \u201cGlobus: A Metacomputing Infrastructure\r\nToolkit,\u201d International Journal of Supercomputer Applications 11 2\r\n(1997), pp. 115-128.\r\n[18] The Globus Project: the GridFTP protocol,\r\nhttp:\/\/www.globus.org\/datagrid\/gridftp.html.\r\n[19] A. Petitet, R. C. Whaley, J. J. Dongarra, and A. Cleary. \u201cHPL - A Portable\r\nImplementation of the High-performance Linpack Benchmark for\r\nDistributed Memory Computers,\u201d Available:\r\nhttp:\/\/www.netlib.org\/benchmark\/hpl\/\r\n[20] Siraya Cluster, Available: http:\/\/siraya.sro.nchc.org.tw\/","publisher":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology","index":"Open Science Index 65, 2012"}