Formulation of Homogenous Cluster Environment using Commodity Grade computers and MPI Paradigm

Abstract- With the advent of market being flooded with cheaper processing power and memory, there is a revolutionary shift from developing a single high end machine to combining cheaper and commercial machines to serve the same purpose. In the interest of said proposition clusters have been the most effective option. This paper focuses on formulating and implementing simpler ways for homogeneous, private, high-performance, Beowulf clustering environment, where in the nodes thus connected and configured collectively execute a bigger tasks by breaking them up into processes, and each such process run parallel. The task gets distributed on various nodes through processes and the final result is obtained at a single node form where the original task was submitted. The processes on different nodes execute in parallel. The Beowulf clustering environment was setup and used with the MPICH2 message passing interface. The output trace shows the id of processes running currently and also the hostname at which node they run