Cluster Analysis
Project Details
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Role :
M.Sc Thesis - High Integrity Systems (Computer Science and Engineering)
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Details :
Running parallel programs on a traditional cluster requires expensive and special processing resources to obtain the required result within a time period. Currently, in the world of computers,
a single-board computers are very popular and efficient because of the low power consumption,
inexpensive and tiny size. This thesis work shows how well the ODROID-U3, a singleboard
computer performs in the cluster environment
The constructed cluster is based on the 4 ODROID-U3 nodes. NFS is used as a clustered file
system which is shared across the computing nodes of the cluster. One of the popular standards
of MPI, the MPICH2 library used in cluster to run parallel applications. In order to perform
basic vector and matrix operation BLAS library is used. For the performance analysis of MPI
program on ODROID cluster, three metrics named as execution time, efficiency and speedup
are used.
This thesis describes the construction of Linux cluster based on ODROID-U3, single board
computer and performance analysis of it. In order to evaluate the real-time performance,
acceptability and usage of the cluster, various types of benchmark test suits and some of the
parallel programs are executed.
