TY - GEN
T1 - A low cost, low power, high scalability and dependability processor-cluster platform
AU - Lin, Yi Li
AU - Chen, Wei Tso
AU - Su, Alvin W.Y.
AU - Chang, Da Wei
AU - Chen, Chung Ho
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Nowadays, more and more applications are computing-intensive, such as search engines, online game servers, or even fMRI, used in medical examination. Supercomputers are setup to meet the computing demand as well as huge data storage. However, some applications favor computing power much more than data storage. To emphasize on providing computing power with low cost, low power, high scalability and dependability, this work presents a platform which involves a group of computing clusters. A cluster consists of up to 12 processors. A computing job is distributed to a group of processors for speed-up. Moreover, an FPGA may join for further acceleration. A set of front-end servers is responsible for job dispatching and maintains reliability. The system details are described. Current status and ongoing work are also reported.
AB - Nowadays, more and more applications are computing-intensive, such as search engines, online game servers, or even fMRI, used in medical examination. Supercomputers are setup to meet the computing demand as well as huge data storage. However, some applications favor computing power much more than data storage. To emphasize on providing computing power with low cost, low power, high scalability and dependability, this work presents a platform which involves a group of computing clusters. A cluster consists of up to 12 processors. A computing job is distributed to a group of processors for speed-up. Moreover, an FPGA may join for further acceleration. A set of front-end servers is responsible for job dispatching and maintains reliability. The system details are described. Current status and ongoing work are also reported.
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U2 - 10.1109/SIES.2011.5953689
DO - 10.1109/SIES.2011.5953689
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80051989248
SN - 9781612848204
T3 - SIES 2011 - 6th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems, Conference Proceedings
SP - 95
EP - 98
BT - SIES 2011 - 6th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems, Conference Proceedings
T2 - 6th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems, SIES 2011
Y2 - 15 June 2011 through 17 June 2011
ER -