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Beowulf HOWTO

Jacek Radajewski and Douglas Eadline

v1.1.1, 22 November 1998

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This document introduces the Beowulf Supercomputer architecture and provides background information on parallel programming, including links to other more specific documents, and web pages.

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1. Preamble

• 1.1 Disclaimer
• 1.2 Copyright
• 1.3 About this HOWTO
• 1.4 About the authors
• 1.5 Acknowledgements

2. Introduction

• 2.1 Who should read this HOWTO ?
• 2.2 What is a Beowulf ?
• 2.3 Classification

3. Architecture Overview

• 3.1 What does it look like ?
• 3.2 How to utilise the other nodes ?
• 3.3 How does Beowulf differ from a COW ?

4. System Design

• 4.1 A brief background on parallel computing.
• 4.2 The methods of parallel computing
• 4.3 Architectures for parallel computing
• 4.4 Suitability
• 4.5 Writing and porting parallel software

5. Beowulf Resources

• 5.1 Starting Points
• 5.2 Documentation
• 5.3 Papers
• 5.4 Software
• 5.5 Beowulf Machines
• 5.6 Other Interesting Sites
• 5.7 History

6. Source code

• 6.1 sum.c
• 6.2 sigmasqrt.c
• 6.3 prun.sh

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