Aiyara cluster

Unlike Beowulf, applications of an Aiyara cluster are scoped only for the Big Data area, not for scientific high-performance computing.

The name Aiyara originally referred to the first ARM-based cluster built by Wichai Srisuruk and Chanwit Kaewkasi at Suranaree University of Technology.

The name "Aiyara" came from a Thai word literally an elephant to reflect its underneath software stack, which is Apache Hadoop.

A report of the Aiyara hardware which successfully processed a non-trivial amount of Big Data was published in the Proceedings of ICSEC 2014.

It is the first known SoC-based ARM cluster which is able to process Big Data successfully using the Spark and HDFS stack.