Green High Performance Computing

摘要

Today's computer hardware is very diverse and has varying levels of performance and power consumption. High Performance Computing (HPC) has become an umbrella term for a number of different computing and networking sciences. The types of applications HPC can serve are up to the creativity of the programmers, but include: database applications, science and chemical modeling programs, mathematical computation algorithms, just to name a few. Distributed Processing is taking a program, and instead of running the components on one processor, we use many processors. However, due to the very nature of creating 'clusters' of computers, HPC can also be very resource intensive. The goal of this project will be to compare and contrast the TCO and performance factors of three (3) computers of varying factory classifications.