June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h 12m
English
A cluster is a single system resource that is a collection of distributed or parallel computing systems connecting a group of individual computers for a common processing purpose. The main advantage of such a system is to obtain greater performance through a relatively lower cost setup, when compared to a single high-performance computer. A generic cluster computer architecture is shown in the following diagram:

Some of the famous sets of elements that make a cluster computer include the following:
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