High-performance Cluster Systems Analysis, Design And Application

High performance cluster is a group of single servers that connected together to form a high performance computing system through the high-speed network. Compared with other high performance computers, the great virtue of the cluster is excellent scalability, high reliability and challenging performance value rate.Based on the analysis of the high performance cluster and the comparison of the cluster's network, the thesis chooses the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) to design the cluster, and then realizes the weather parallel application on it.In the first part, the thesis describes the international trend of high performance cluster and researches the system structure of cluster. Secondly, several high-speed networks of the cluster are analyzed, including the structures and the components of them. Through the analysis, the result of performance comparison test of these networks is provided. According to the need of weather forecast computing, the thesis adopts 16 nodes and SCI to construct the cluster. Finally, the thesis realizes the application of weather numerical value forecast in the cluster, such as Mesoscale Model 5(MM5), Common Climate Model (CCM3) and Regional Climate Model 3(RegCM3).In conclusion, a high performance cluster system is designed and analyzed, which provides lots of useful data for advanced research.