The Case for a Cost-Effective General-Purpose Computer Cluster for Small Colleges

The computational capabilities of commercial CPUs and GPUs reached a plateau but soft-ware applications are usually memory-intense tasks they commonly need/utilize most recent hardware developments. Computer clusters an expensive solution, although reliable versatile, with limited market share for small colleges.
 Small schools would typically rely on cloud-based systems because more afford-able (less expensive), manageable (no need to worry about the maintenance), easier implement (the burden is shifted into datacenter). Here we provide arguments in favor on-campus which, while providing benefits students, does not present financial associated larger powerful computer clus-ters. We think that instructors engineering/computer science faculties might find this viable workable solution improve computing environment their school without incurring high cost ready-made solution. 
 At basis proposal acquisition inexpensive refurbished type1 VMware hypervisor free licensing, as well custom-made web plat-form control deployed hypervisors. global leader cloud infrastruc-ture software-based solutions. In particular, adoption customized "Elastic Sky X integrated" together Virtual Operating Systems installed very same datastore, constitute interesting working proof-of-concept achieving cluster at fraction cost.