A low-cost multicomputer for teaching environments

We propose a teaching resource that uses Hard Kernel boards to build an MPI server with 256 cores. Although this system has a relatively low performance, the aim is to provide access to hundreds of cores for carrying out scalability analyses, while obtaining a good trade-off between performance, price, and energy consumption. Here, we give details about the implementation of this system at both the hardware and software levels. We also explain how it was used to teach parallel programming in a university degree course, and discuss the teachers’ and students’ comments about using this new system.

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CitationAliagas, C. [et al.]. A low-cost multicomputer for teaching environments. "IEEE - RITA (Revista iberoamericana de tecnologías del aprendizaje)", Agost 2020, vol. 15, núm. 3, p. 171-182.

URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/329904

DOI10.1109/RITA.2020.3008098

ISSN1932-8540

Publisher versionhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9137295

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