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Ethernet
Defining Clustered Servers
High Performance Computing Clusters
Front End
Back End
Back End Inter-Processor
Communication Using TCP
or MPI, DAPL, SDP Protocols
Ethernet
InfiniBand
Compute Nodes
(Up To Thousands)
Common
File System
NAS, SAN
Master Nodes
• Front End Inter-Nodal
Communication TCP, UDP.
• Job Scheduling over SSH, RSH,
BPSH (BPROC–Beowulf).
• Node Status (UDP)
Ethernet
(NFS, iSCSI),
FC
Ethernet
InfiniBand
Specific Applications
Financial analysis
Animation rendering
Seismology
Oil exploration
Biochemistry
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