You interact with Clustor through your local computer, which is used to control your parametric execution. This computer is your Clustor Root . Remote computers, executing individual jobs, are Clustor Nodes . Each Root can control numerous Nodes of varying sizes and capacities as shown in Figure 2.1. The application is specified in a plan file.
Plans contain parameters and commands.
Plan commands can execute user programs on remote computers or copy files between the local and remote computers. Plans are standard character based files, which can be prepared with any text editor. Clustor provides a simple interactive tool, called the Preparator , which can be used instead of a text editor to simplify the construction of plan files. The Generator takes a plan and interactively builds a custom graphical interface for specifying input values. After your enter the input values, the Generator generates all the jobs for the application and their corresponding input values.