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CLUSTER COMPUTINGCLUSTER COMPUTING

Under the guidance of,

Prof.Umapathi G.R

Presented By,

Navaneeth.C.Mouly

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Abstract.

Introduction.

Why Clusters?

Real Time Example. Architecture.

Cluster Classification.

Benefits.

Dark side of cluster computing. Applications.

Challenges.

Conclusion.

AGENDAAGENDA


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Cluster computing is the technique

of linking two or more computers into anetwork (usually through a local areanetwork) in order to take advantage ofthe parallel processing power of thosecomputers.

AbstractAbstract


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Very often applications need more computing

power than a sequential computer can provide.

One way of overcoming this limitation is to

improve the operating speed of processors and other

components so that they can offer the power

required by computationally intensive applications.The viable and cost-effective solution is to connect

multiple processors together and co-ordinate their

computational efforts.

INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION


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Pfister points out, there are 3 ways to

improve performance..

1. Work harder.

2. Work smarter

3. Get help

Introduction contd..Introduction contd..

Shared Pool of

Computing

Resources:Processors, Memory,

Disks

Interconnect


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The question may arise why clusters are designed and built

when perfectly good commercial supercomputers are available on the

market.

Clusters are surprisingly powerful.

They are cheap and easy way to take off-the-shelf components

and combine them into a single supercomputer.

In some areas of research clusters are actually faster than

commercial supercomputer.

Clusters also have the distinct advantage that they are simple to

buildusing components available from hundreds of sources.

WhyClusters?WhyClusters?


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RealReal TTimeimeEExamplexample

Pentium 4 Xeon Cluster

270 GB RAM

8,700 GB Hard Disk


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ArchitectureArchitecture


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Types OfClustersTypes OfClusters

1. High availability or Failover Clusters.

2. Load Balancing Clusters.

3. Parallel/Distributed processing clusters.


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FailoverClustersFailoverClusters


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Load BalancingClusterLoad BalancingCluster


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Benefits OfClustersBenefits OfClusters

1. Reduced Cost

2. Processing Power

3. Improved Network Technology

4. Scalability

5. Availability


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Dark Side OfComputingDark Side OfComputing

An eternal struggle in any IT department is in finding a

method to squeeze the maximum processing power out of a

limited budget.

Today more than ever, enterprises require enormous

processing power in order to manage their desktop

applications, databases and knowledge management .

Many business processes are extremely heavy users of IT

resources, and yet IT budgets struggle to keep pace with the

ever growing demand for yet more power.


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ChallengesChallenges

The cluster computing concept also poses three

pressing research challenges:

A cluster should be a single computing resource

and provide a single system image. This is in

contrast to a distributed system where the nodes

serve only as individual resources.

The supporting operating system and

communication Mechanism must be efficient

enough to remove the performance Bottlenecks.


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ChallengesContdChallengesContd

The systems total computing power should

increase proportionally to the increase in

resources.


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ApplicationsApplications

Few important cluster application are:

1. Google Search Engine.

2. Earthquake Simulation.

3.Image Rendering.


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GooglecontdGooglecontd

Google uses cluster computing to meet the huge

quantity of worldwide search requests that comprise of

a peak of thousands of queries per second.

A single Google query needs to use at least tens of

billions of processing cycles and access a few hundred

megabytes of data in order to return satisfactory search

result.


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GoogleContdGoogleContd

The first phase of query execution involves index servers consulting an

inverted index that match each query keyword to a matching list of documents.

In the second phase, document servers fetch each document from disk to

extract the title and the keyword-in-context portion of the document.

In addition to the 2 phases, the GWS also activates the spell checker and the

ad server. The spell checker verifies that the spelling of the query keywords is

correct, while the ad server generate advertisements that relate to the query and

may therefore interest the user.


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ConclusionConclusion

Solve parallel processing paradox

Offer incremental growth and matches with

funding pattern

New trends in hardware and softwaretechnologies are likely to make clusters morepromising.

Clusters based supercomputers can be seeneverywhere!


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