Overview

Teaching: min
Exercises: min

Questions

• Why use a large-scale computing system?

• How is using a cluster different than your laptop?

Objectives

Topics

When it is appropriate to use a cluster

How can you use a cluster?

Talk to your neighbor about your research. How does computing help you do your research? How could more computing help you do more or better research?

How is using a cluster different than your laptop?

Thinking ahead

How is using a large-scale computing system different from using your laptop? Talk to your neighbor about some differences you may already know about, and some differences/difficulties you imagine you may run into.

Key Points

• A cluster or distributed system is useful when your computations require more than one computer.

• Because a cluster is distributed, it is only useful for certain types of computational problems.