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Basic Software Components

Basic Software Components

• A cluster may be defined as a network of workstations managed by specific system
  software to provide the user with a single computational resource.

• Clusters have the potential for low-cost, high performance computing due to:
  • increase in workstation power

  • a reduction in hardware costs

  • the development of cluster software technology

• LANGUAGES - two broad categories
  • conventional languages such as C and Fortran, which require additional functionality (usually from libraries) to support parallelism;

  • languages with syntax constructs directly supporting parallelism.

• LIBRARIES
  • support the development of parallel software within cluster environments, in general, may be used with conventional programming languages to provide support for parallelism.

• DEBUGGERS

• CLUSTER QUEUING SYSTEMS
  • a unified cluster providing distributed computing services is achieved through use of specialised system management