Comparison of cluster software

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).

Table explanation

• Software: The name of the application that is described

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

• 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