High-performance computing clusters enter the office environment era

Distributed cluster applications have become the mainstream architecture of high-performance computing today, with significant advantages of strong expansion capabilities, high reliability, and low maintenance costs. However, traditional cluster management and maintenance requires all equipment to be placed in a dedicated computing center room, which has extremely high requirements for the environment, electricity, and personnel, and is expensive and has high maintenance costs.

With the accelerated replacement of CPUs, machine performance is constantly improving on the one hand, while old machines are facing the possibility of being eliminated on the other hand, which also brings huge risks to large-scale machine procurement. If the utilization rate cannot be increased, there will be a huge waste of funds. Since the capacity of a single computing node is already the performance of dozens of machines in the past single-core era, using a few computing nodes with the latest Xeon processor specifications can achieve extremely high computing performance. The performance of a cluster composed of 4 to 6 machines has exceeded one trillion times per second. This system performance has fully met more than 80% of scientific and engineering computing applications. If this kind of mini cluster is allowed to enter the office environment, it will be more convenient for customers to use, with higher operating efficiency and lower maintenance costs. The loss caused by being eliminated is also the lowest, and the benefits are obvious.

Basic requirements for office environment

If the distributed computing cluster system is placed in an office environment, there are certain requirements for the noise and power consumption of the machine, and the electromagnetic radiation and electronic pollution of the product must also be controlled:

• Noise control: The noise level in the office environment during the day should not exceed 45 decibels
• Total power consumption control: cannot exceed 3000w
• Electronic pollution: All accessories in the machine must meet green and environmental protection requirements.

XASUN has solved the above problems through years of technology accumulation and has truly achieved perfection. XASUN has made high-performance computing clusters enter the office environment, allowing more researchers to enjoy the benefits of distributed computing. At the same time, the overall performance of the machine is highly efficient and the maintenance cost is extremely low.

(II) Cluster system composition and function introduction

(III) XASUN Silent Distributed Cluster Application Case

1. Scientific computing cluster application cases

2. GPU heterogeneous parallel computing application cases

3. Render Farm Application Cases