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Abstract Among distributed computing systems we can find
clusters. A computer cluster consists of a set of strong or loosely
connected computers that work together, so that in many aspects
they can be viewed as a single system. CAR Caribe is a highperformance cluster with academic proposes, built at the
Universidad Catlica Andrs Bello, extensin Guayana. It
consists of 12 PCs (11 compute nodes and a master node)
interconnected with a FastEthernet network, so its architecture is
Beowulf. CAR Caribe uses Rocks 6.0 Mamba distribution, which
is based on CentOS 6.2, operating system.
Keywords cluster, rocks mamba, high performance
computing; distributed computing; programming paradigms.
I. INTRODUCCIN
Los sistemas de computacin distribuidos denominados
clusters son aquellos cuyo hardware subyacente consiste en
una coleccin de estaciones de trabajo o PCs similares,
conectados estrechamente mediante una red de rea local de
alta velocidad. Adicionalmente, cada nodo ejecuta el mismo
sistema operativo.
Los clusters se volvieron populares con la disminucin del
precio y el aumento del rendimiento de los computadores