Commodity Clusters
Abstract
Commodity clusters (Baker and Buyya, 1999) [1] are an important class of modern-day supercomputers. A commodity cluster is an ensemble of fully independent computing systems integrated by a commodity off-the-shelf interconnection communication network. Commodity clusters exploit the economy of scale of their mass-produced subsystems and components to deliver the best performance relative to cost in high performance computing for many user workloads. Clusters represent more than 80% of all the systems on the Top 500 list and a larger part of commercial scalable systems. While they do not drive the very peak performance in the field, they are the class of system most likely to be encountered in a typical machine ...
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