The following tables compare general and technical information for notable computer cluster software. This software can be grossly separated in four categories: Job scheduler, nodes management, nodes installation and integrated stack (all the above).
General information
Table explanation
- Software: The name of the application that is described
Technical information
Table Explanation
- Software: The name of the application that is described
- SMP aware:
- basic: hard split into multiple virtual host
- basic+: hard split into multiple virtual host with some minimal/incomplete communication between virtual host on the same computer
- dynamic: split the resource of the computer(CPU/Ram) on demand
History and adoption
See also
- List of distributed computing projects
- Computer cluster
- Grid computing
- World Community Grid
- Distributed computing
- Distributed Resource Management
- High-Throughput Computing
- Job Processing Cycle
- Batch processing
- Fallacies of Distributed Computing