The main objective of this poster is to present an affordable and easy-to-use high performance cluster system that can be used for the classroom in teaching-oriented computer science curriculum. In order to address this, we design and implement an affordable high performance cluster system that is based on PlayStation 3 . PS3 is a well-known for game console manufactured by Sony. Since each PS3 console has IBM Cell BE processor that consists of 8 Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs) and 1 Power Processing Element (PPE), it can be used as a processing node with multiplecore processor in the cluster system.In addition, the implemented cluster system has been used for new and existing computer science courses, such as CPSC 592: Parallel and Distributed Database, CPSC 590: Parallel and Distributed Processing, and CPSC 591: Parallel Programming. Multimedia Information GroupFor the affordable high performance computer, it needs to satisfy with the following requirements: (1) price (2) processor power (3) scalability (4) easy to use.In order to satisfy the aforementioned requirements, we adapt PlayStation 3 (PS3) based cluster system for the high performance computing environment.PlayStation, PS in abbreviated, is a video game console manufactured by Sony. The console has attracted considerable attention as a computing node because of the high performance of CELL processor used in PS3 with significantly low price comparing to other processors.In order to offer HPC related courses under teaching-oriented curriculum, such as Distributed and Parallel system, Parallel Programming or Distributed and Parallel Database, we need affordable infrastructure where student and instructor can design, implement and test the HPC system. An alternative approach for the HPC is cluster-based computing system because of its flexibility and feasibility of high computing power with relatively low cost. In addition, open source software including operating systems (i.e., Linux) and programming SDK help to reduce the cost, even make us easy to implement and use them. Therefore, we design and implement an affordable high performance cluster system that is based on PlayStation 3. PS3 is a well-known for game console. Since each PS3 device has IBM Cell BE processor that consists of 8 Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs) and 1 Power Processing Element (PPE), it can be used as a processing node with multiple-core processor in the cluster system. 6 PS3 are connected each other through gigabit ethernet to form a cluster system. In addition, Fedora Core 12 Linux is installed as an operating system as well as IBM Cell SDK and Open-MPI as parallel programming software. All of them are open source software and easy to use in the classroom. This lineup is not only for educational purpose, but also used for military and industrial solutions.
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