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Clusters have become a major part of many enterprise IT systems and, in the case of Google and Amazon, the building blocks of their technology infrastructure. On a wider scale, clusters and other resources such as storage servers have been coupled to create Grids to enable distributed high-performance computing for scientific research and business applications.
Also High-performance computing systems developed using clusters, have been used for solving resource-intensive problems in many domains.
What is a Cluster?
A cluster is a type of parallel or distributed processing system, which consists of a collection of interconnected stand-alone computers cooperatively working together as a single, integrated computing resource.
A cluster is usually a linux-based operating system.
Cluster computing became popular in the mid-1990s as traditional mainframes and vector supercomputers were proven to be less cost-effective in many high-performance computing (HPC) applications.
Back in the day, the machines used for high performance computing were known as “supercomputers,” or big standalone machines with specialized hardware–very different from what you would find in home and office computers.
A computer cluster is a collection of interconnected stand-alone computers…
