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Read the new case study about how Harvard University consolidated computing resources with Grid MP.

UniCluster 4.0

For UniCluster 4.0 documentation please visit:

http://wiki.grid.org/UniCluster_Preview

UniCluster 3.2

For the most up to date versions of our documentation please see our wiki at

http://wiki.grid.org/Installation

Static copies of UniCluster 3.2 documents are provided below.

We also provide the complete source for UniCluster Express for you.

The source code for Perl and some third-party Perl modules are also provided, because the UniCluster Express installer bundles a pre-compiled version of it in order to simplify install-time dependencies for the user.

1. What is grid.org?

Grid.org is a community for open source cluster and grid users, developers, and administrators. Home to the UniCluster open source project as well as other projects and communities, the Grid.org mission is to provide an all-inclusive destination for people with similar cluster and grid interests. We offer a single location that aggregates all relevant information about open source cluster and grid technologies, projects, users, uses, documents, stories, questions and answers, and more.

For many types of computing problems related to high-throughput applications, it is possible to take advantage of the scalable performance of a cluster without changing the application. In this document we examine these types of applications and show how to recognize if your application problems fit into this category.

This document provides a brief introduction to the software stack that turns a rack of servers into an integrated cluster and grid platform.

Problem Statement

A 1991 New York Times article predicted that the rapid improvement of commodity processors and storage would spell doom for special purpose supercomputers. Indeed, in the intervening years this "attack of the killer micros" has come to pass, and scale-out platforms based on commodity Intel and AMD chip sets are now ubiquitous.

High performance at modest cost-what's not to like? This document provides a brief introduction to compute clusters and explains how they can deliver considerable computing power at modest cost and, thanks to professional open source cluster software, ease of administration and use.

Problem Statement

Do any of the following descriptions sound familiar?

Welcome to our growing library of help documents, where you can learn more about cluster and grid.

Deploying UniCluster Express in Amazon EC2

This paper presents step by step instructions for setting up a UniCluster Express cluster service within Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) web service.

Why Clusters?: High performance at modest cost-what's not to like?

As we mention elsewhere, it is very important to all of us at grid.org to be transparent about the fact that the site is sponsored by corporate entities.  It’s due to their support that we are able to offer Grid.org projects to the community at large.

We appreciate our corporate sponsors, and we want to be very clear about who they are:

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