Setting Up a High Performance Computing Environment in the Ereğli Kemal Akman Vocational School

The purpose of setting up this environment is to provide a tool for solving problems arising from engineering and science using parallel computing methods and achieving high performances in these solutions. In general, these kinds of problems require high processing powers. This environment is based on Beowulf Clusters which are widely used and cost-effective parallel computer architectures. A Beowulf Cluster is a parallel computer that is constructed of commodity hardware running commodity software. For this environment, eight computers with Celeron®CPU’s have been used. On each of these computers one of the popular distributions of Linux operating system, Fedora 11 has been installed. Then a local area network has been set up using a gigabit Ethernet switch. As the Message Passing Interface standard the high performance implementation of this standard, MPICH2 has been installed. This was the final step of installation. Finally, this environment has been tested with some parallel programs solving simple numerical analysis problems. The environment must be tested with more serious problems.