Author, as appears in the article.: Aliagas, Carles; Garcia-Famoso, Montse; Meseguer, Roc; Millan, Pere; Molina, Carlos
Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: Aliagas Castell, Carlos / García Famoso, María Montserrat / Millán Marco, Pedro / Molina Clemente, Carlos María
Keywords: Servers Scalability Performance Parallel programming Parallel machines Multiprocessor interconnection Multicore processing Low-power systems Hardware Graphics processing units Educational activities Education Cluster Affordable and clean energy
Abstract: We propose a teaching resource that uses HardKernel 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.
Thematic Areas: Linguística e literatura Interdisciplinar General engineering Ensino Engineering (miscellaneous) Engineering (all) Engenharias iv Education Educación Educação E-learning Computer science, interdisciplinary applications Ciência da computação
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 19328540
Author's mail: carlos.molina@urv.cat pere.millan@urv.cat montse.garcia@urv.cat montse.garcia@urv.cat carles.aliagas@urv.cat carles.aliagas@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-1955-0128 0000-0002-4132-7099 0000-0002-9838-8896 0000-0002-9838-8896
Record's date: 2024-11-23
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Revista Iberoamericana De Tecnologias Del Aprendizaje. 15 (3): 171-182
APA: Aliagas, Carles; Garcia-Famoso, Montse; Meseguer, Roc; Millan, Pere; Molina, Carlos (2020). A Low-Cost Multicomputer for Teaching Environments. Revista Iberoamericana De Tecnologias Del Aprendizaje, 15(3), 171-182. DOI: 10.1109/RITA.2020.3008098
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2020
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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