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5. Beowulf Resources

5.1 Starting Points

Beowulf mailing list. To subscribe send mail to beowulf-request@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov with the word subscribe in the message body.
Beowulf Homepage http://www.beowulf.org
Extreme Linux http://www.extremelinux.org
Extreme Linux Software from Red Hat http://www.redhat.com/extreme

5.2 Documentation

The latest version of the Beowulf HOWTO http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/beowulf .
Building a Beowulf System http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/beowulf/tutorial/building.html
Jacek's Beowulf Links http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/beowulf .
Beowulf Installation and Administration HOWTO (DRAFT) http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/beowulf .
Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO http://yara.ecn.purdue.edu/~pplinux/PPHOWTO/pphowto.html

5.3 Papers

Chance Reschke, Thomas Sterling, Daniel Ridge, Daniel Savarese, Donald Becker, and Phillip Merkey A Design Study of Alternative Network Topologies for the Beowulf Parallel Workstation . Proceedings Fifth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 1996. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/HPDC96/hpdc96.html
Daniel Ridge, Donald Becker, Phillip Merkey, Thomas Sterling Becker, and Phillip Merkey. Harnessing the Power of Parallelism in a Pile-of-PCs . Proceedings, IEEE Aerospace, 1997. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/AA97/aa97.ps
Thomas Sterling, Donald J. Becker, Daniel Savarese, Michael R. Berry, and Chance Res. Achieving a Balanced Low-Cost Architecture for Mass Storage Management through Multiple Fast Ethernet Channels on the Beowulf Parallel Workstation . Proceedings, International Parallel Processing Symposium, 1996. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/IPPS96/ipps96.html
Donald J. Becker, Thomas Sterling, Daniel Savarese, Bruce Fryxell, Kevin Olson. Communication Overhead for Space Science Applications on the Beowulf Parallel Workstation . Proceedings,High Performance and Distributed Computing, 1995. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/HPDC95/hpdc95.html
Donald J. Becker, Thomas Sterling, Daniel Savarese, John E. Dorband, Udaya A. Ranawak, Charles V. Packer. BEOWULF: A PARALLEL WORKSTATION FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION . Proceedings, International Conference on Parallel Processing, 95. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/ICPP95/icpp95.html
Papers at the Beowulf site http://www.beowulf.org/papers/papers.html

5.4 Software

PVM - Parallel Virtual Machine http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html
LAM/MPI (Local Area Multicomputer / Message Passing Interface http://www.mpi.nd.edu/lam
BERT77 - FORTRAN conversion tool http://www.plogic.com/bert.html
Beowulf software from Beowulf Project Page http://beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/software.html
Jacek's Beowulf-utils ftp://ftp.sci.usq.edu.au/pub/jacek/beowulf-utils
bWatch - cluster monitoring tool http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/bWatch

5.5 Beowulf Machines

Avalon consists of 140 Alpha processors, 36 GB of RAM, and is probably the fastest Beowulf machine, cruising at 47.7 Gflops and ranking 114th on the Top 500 list. http://swift.lanl.gov/avalon/
Megalon-A Massively PArallel CompuTer Resource (MPACTR) consists of 14, quad CPU Pentium Pro 200 nodes, and 14 GB of RAM. http://megalon.ca.sandia.gov/description.html
theHIVE - Highly-parallel Integrated Virtual Environment is another fast Beowulf Supercomputer. theHIVE is a 64 node, 128 CPU machine with the total of 4 GB RAM. http://newton.gsfc.nasa.gov/thehive/
Topcat is a much smaller machine and consists of 16 CPUs and 1.2 GB RAM. http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/topcat
MAGI cluster - this is a very interesting site with many good links. http://noel.feld.cvut.cz/magi/