In January 2005, nine computer science graduate students at ETSU undertook a three semester capstone project, which sought to promote the use of HPC at the university. Additional goals of the project included
- determining how well lower-cost, contemporary strategies for implementing HPC can be adapted for use at ETSU,
- investigating the feasibility and cost effectiveness of HPC,
- identifying impediments to its deployment in the existing campus network infrastructure, and
- transferring expertise to a second team of students who will continue this work through 2007.
The HPC team was also assigned the task to study the feasibility of implementing HPC within ETSU's current computational infrastructure. The team addressed this charge by drafting a comprehensive set of manuals for implementing support for HPC, designed for use by newcomers to HPC.
This section of the website contains a collection of the case studies, programming code, and other supporting documents created by the HPC Project Team over the course of their work on this project. Please click on the links below – or on the links in the left navigation column – for more information.
HPC1 Summary
Third-party Software Evaluation
Genetic Algorithms
Condor
