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

See also

• List of volunteer computing projects

• List of cluster management software

• Computer cluster

• Grid computing

• World Community Grid

• Distributed computing

• Distributed resource management

• High-Throughput Computing

• Job Processing Cycle

• Batch processing

• Fallacies of Distributed Computing

References