The following tables compare general and technical information for notable computer clustersoftware. This article is not all-inclusive and may become out of date quickly.
GSI,SSL,Kerberos, Password,File System, Remote File System, Windows, Claim To Be, Anonymous
None, 3DES, BLOWFISH
None, MD5
None, NFS, AFS
Not official, hack with ACL and NFS4
Heterogeneous
Yes
Yes
Fair-share with some programmability
basic (hard separation into different node)
tested ~10000?
tested ~100000?
Yes
MPI, OpenMP, PVM
Yes
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.