Un Clúster aplicado a la educación, portátil, del bajo costo, usando Raspberry Pi

Abstract

This article is about the implementation of a Cluster called CRUZ (whose acronym stands for Research Cluster of the Uni de Poder Zero) as a portable educational tool made up of 16 nodes and an additional node for the master node. It uses a total of 17 Raspberry Pi boards that were joined together to form a network, each with Internet access. The team as a whole is configured by installing appropriate software, so that they work collaboratively processing a task partitioned between all nodes using MPI libraries. Allowing them to develop and test programs in parallel. The goal of this equipment is to be used as a teaching tool in Parallel and Distributed Programming courses, providing a low-cost starting point to inspire and empower students to understand and apply high-speed computing. performance and data manipulation to address complex engineering and scientific challenges.