Introduction Introduction to Clustor Overview of the Manual Introduction to Clustor Clustor is a software development tool for utilizing the power of cluster computing . It provides an easy and intuitive environment to prepare and execute applications over multiple computers, which offers significant time and money savings. Unlike other tools for development of parallel programs, Clustor requires no programming and no changes to applications. Clustor is based on a simple, yet extremely powerful concept, called parametric execution.
Parametric executions require that the same application is executed numerous times.
They produce a lot of jobs, often exceeding thousands, which makes parametric executions ideally suited to run on large computing clusters. To perform parametric executions, the user simply specifies input parameters and commands to be executed. Clustor does the rest - it generates jobs to be computed, executes the jobs and collects the results. Jobs can be distributed over a local area network or over Internet. Clustor runs applications over networks, ranging in size from one to several hundreds of computers.