Implementation and Operation of an HPC Cluster using Computer Labs in Inactivity Schedules

Abstract

This paper presents a preliminary report of a platform to facilitate students, teachers and researchers access HPC clusters at affordable costs using existing resources in institutions where They perform their activities. The computer labs of the universities constitute a reservoir of processing power. These can be used to form a cluster of high performance calculation in schedules that are not They find busy. In this way you can reduce the costs of owning an HPC cluster, expand the range of services and possibilities that the institution provides to its members and increase the use of laboratories improving its amortization and therefore justifying the investment better.