Abstract: The present invention is directed to a computer cluster arrangement and a method for operation of the introduced computer cluster arrangement. The computer cluster arrangement comprises computation nodes CN, which dynamically outsource specific computation tasks to boosters B. Therefore, an assignment technique of boosters B to computation nodes CN is introduced. The assignment takes dynamically place at runtime. The present invention finds application in high performance cluster technology.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of operating a heterogeneous computing system comprising a plurality of computation nodes and a plurality of booster nodes, at least one of the plurality of computation nodes and plurality of booster nodes being arranged to compute a computation task, the computation task comprising a plurality of sub-tasks, wherein in a first computing iteration, the plurality of sub-tasks are assigned to and processed by ones of the plurality of computation nodes and booster nodes in a first distribution; and information relating to the processing of the plurality of sub-tasks by the plurality of computation nodes and booster nodes is used to generate a further distribution of the sub-tasks between the computation nodes and booster node for processing thereby in a further computing iteration.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of high performance computing (HPC). In particular, the invention relates to a heterogeneous computing system, particularly a computing system including different modules, which can freely be assigned to jointly process a computation tasks. A control entity, referred to as module computing abstraction layer (MCAL), is provided which allows dynamic assignment of various resources provided by the different modules. Due to its flexibility in adjusting to varying demands in computing, the present invention is also applicable as an underlying system for providing cloud computing services, which provides shared computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand, mostly via the Internet.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a computer cluster arrangement and a method for operation of the introduced computer cluster arrangement. The computer cluster arrangement comprises computation nodes CN, which dynamically outsource specific computation tasks to boosters B. Therefore, an assignment technique of boosters B to computation nodes CN is introduced. The assignment takes dynamically place at runtime. The present invention finds application in high performance cluster technology.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a computer cluster arrangement and a method for operation of the introduced computer cluster arrangement. The computer cluster arrangement comprises computation nodes CN, which dynamically outsource specific computation tasks to boosters B. Therefore, an assignment technique of boosters B to computation nodes CN is introduced. The assignment takes dynamically place at runtime. The present invention finds application in high performance cluster technology.

Abstract: A distributed file system including a plurality of compute nodes and a plurality of input/output (I/O) nodes connected by an interconnection network wherein the system is adapted to use a common data representation for both physical and logical partitions of a file stored in the system and wherein the partitions are linearly addressable. Also provided is a method of operating a distributed file system including a plurality of input/output (I/O) nodes and a plurality of compute nodes, the method including partitioning a file into a plurality of subfiles distributed across a plurality of I/O nodes; logically partitioning a file by setting a view on it, computing mappings between a linear space of a file and a linear space of a subfile, computing the intersection between a view and a subfile, and performing data operations.