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5. Beowulf Resources

5.1 Starting Points

• Beowulf mailing list. To subscribe send mail to [email protected] 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/

5.6 Other Interesting Sites

• SMP Linux http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html
• Paralogic - Buy a Beowulf http://www.plogic.com

5.7 History

• Legends - Beowulf http://legends.dm.net/beowulf/index.html
• The Adventures of Beowulf http://www.lnstar.com/literature/beowulf/beowulf.html

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