Understanding the requirements
Understanding the requirements of an application means that you must understand the application, the memory requirements, the CPU requirements, the time to process the information, how it scales, and how it must be modified to scale. But, understanding the requirements of a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster involves more than storage devices and the ideal combination of nodes that are connected through a high-bandwidth network.
This chapter describes the conventional design requirements for any HPC cluster. ...
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