Name
Abstract | ||
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The advent of the Beowulf cluster in 1994 provided ded- icated compute cycles, i.e., supercomputing for the masses , as a cost-effective alternative to large supercomputers, i .e., supercomputing for the few. However, as the cluster move- ment matured, these clusters became like their large-scale supercomputing brethren — a shared (and power-hungry) datacenter resource that must reside in a actively-cooled machine room in order to operate properly. The above ob- servation, coupled with the increasing performance gap be- tween the PC and supercomputer, provides the motivation for a "green supercomputer" in a desktop box. Thus, this paper presents and evaluates such an architectural solu- tion: a 12-node personal desktop supercomputer that offers an interactive environment for developing parallel codes and achieves 14 Gflops on Linpack but sips only 185 watts of power at load — all this in the approximate form factor of a Sun SPARCstation 1 pizza box. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370542 | IPDPS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
operating systems,cost effectiveness,workstations,sun,computer architecture,scheduling,microcomputers,form factor,linux,performance | Cluster (physics),Supercomputer,Computer science,FLOPS,Scheduling (computing),Parallel computing,Workstation,Workstation clusters,Operating system,Performance gap,Distributed computing | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
3 | 0.62 | 7 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wu-chun Feng | 1 | 2812 | 232.50 |
| Avery Ching | 2 | 221 | 16.21 |
| Chung-Hsing Hsu | 3 | 719 | 45.47 |