cluster5 is a high-performance compute cluster set up at Fr. C. Rodrigues Institute of Technology, Vashi. It merits a distinction of being the first HPC cluster setup in the University of Mumbai, India. cluster5 was set up as a part of the ongoing research activity in the field of parallel computing at the institute.The primary purpose of the cluster is to learn parallel computation and it's applications.
cluster5
cluster5 is a HPC beowulf cluster consisting of 5 nodes, housed at the R&D Lab at FrCRIT. It was set up to learn parallel computation and it's applications. It was scaled up to 10 nodes for specific applications.
Some computationally-intensive operations like matrix multiplication, brute-force attack for breaking of DES amd parallel searching and sorting algorithms have been implemented on cluster5.
Wall-O-Tile
Wall-O-Tile is a tile display wall system comprising of 4 flat-panel LCD monitors mounted on a specially-designed wooden rack. It is connected to a 5-node cluster and a variety of applications for presentation and visualization of high-resolution media have been developed for it.
It improves the effective resolution of the display system at a significantly cheaper cost as compared to specialized high-resolution display systems.
Upcoming Research in R&D Lab
- Setting up a wireless cluster, measuring its speed and comparing the same with a wired cluster.
- Diskless booting of clients using Perceus.
- Parallel Processing -
- Breaking DES
- Parallel and Distributed AI applications.
- Parallel Desktop System.
- Image Processing operations for the Image Viewer.
- Enhancing the parallel video player.
