Design of a portable cluster supercomputer for particle image velocimetry data processing

Thomas Hauser, Mark A. Perl

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    Abstract

    In this paper, we present the design of a portable cluster supercomputer created specifically for processing particle image velocimetry image data. To make this computer system portable for a laboratory environment, it is designed to run on minimal power, to be lightweight, and portable. The hardware configuration consists of 12 processing nodes with a total of 48 processor cores, one master node with five terabytes of disk storage, and a gigabit ethernet interconnect. The total configuration along with a rugged transportation case has an approximate gross weight of 3901b and works on one standard 120 V, 20A electric circuit. With this cluster computer, a speedup of 28 relative to standard serial processing of a large particle image velocimetry data set was achieved.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)448-459
    Number of pages12
    JournalJournal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication
    Volume5
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Nov 2008

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