Homemade assembly and parameterization of a High Performance Cluster using PelicanHPC with Flops testing and controlled temperature thanks to MCUs Arduino project

TL;DR

This paper presents a cost-effective high-performance compute cluster built with PelicanHPC, detailing its setup, performance testing with MPI, and temperature control via microcontrollers, comparing results across different clusters.

Contribution

It introduces a homemade cluster setup with detailed parameterization, performance benchmarking, and temperature management using MCUs, which is a novel low-cost approach.

Findings

Cluster performance measured with flops testing.

Temperature control effectively maintained by MCUs.

Cost reduction compared to commercial clusters.

Abstract

This article shows a lower cost realization of a compute cluster using Debian distribution such as PelicanHPC. We will explain parameterization and network configuration for master and compute slave nodes. Performance testing will take place using flops.f file given by MPI. The results will be compared between differents clusters. We will explain quickly how the temperature is controlled by a microcontroller unit.