Beowolf Clusters

Beowolf Clusters consist of clusters of commodity processors connected by commodity networks. The commodity processors are mostly Pentiums or DEC Alphas, and the commodity networks vary from Ethernet to Fast Ethernet, Myrinet, and ATM. The Beowulf Project was started at CESDIS in the summer of 1994 with the assembly of a 16 node cluster developed for the Earth and space sciences project (ESS) at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The project quickly spread to other NASA sites, other R&D labs and to universities around the world. The project's scope and the number of Beowulf installations have grown over the years.

Beowulf Information Sites

Beowulf Sites

Beowulf NASA/Goddard	Avalon Loki LANL	Naegling CalTech	Megalon DAISy Sandia NL	Alice2 Ames Lab, IA
Linux cluster Colorado School of Mines	Drexel University	The Hive NASA/Goddard	Grendel Clemson University	PACET George Washington University
AENEAS UC Irvine	MAGI CTU Prague	Brahma Duke University	Topcat University of Southern Queensland	Texas Tech University
Stone SouperComputer ORNL	Hermes HEPL, Germany	JazzNet NIST	Orwell Max Planck	Trumpf University of Mannheim
MadDog UMIST Manchester	Smile Kasetsart University, Thailand	LoBoS NIH	SWARM Oregon State	Alpha Cluster Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM)
Whitney NASA Ames

The Drexel University Beowulf Linux cluster
The Clemson University Beowulf "Grendel"
PACET George Washington University's Beowulf cluster
The Stone SouperComputer at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL): a 126 node cluster at zero dollars per node.
Naegling CalTech's Beowulf Linux cluster
Loki the Los Alamos Beowulf cluster with the especially cool logo.
Megalon Sandia's large Beowulf machine.
theHive one of the large Beowulf clusters at Goddard
AENEAS at the University of California, Irvine.
MAGI CTU Prague's Beowulf cluster for speech recognition
Brahma Duke University's cluster
Topcat University of Southern Queensland's Beowulf cluster.
University of Southern Mississippi's online discussions about bringing a Beowulf to the campus.
Texas Tech University's Beowulf page
LoBoS The Beowulf cluster at NIH
Oregon State University SWARM
Smile Cluster at Kasetsart University
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee A DEC Alpha 300XL based system used to support the LIGO Experiment within the Physics Department at UWM.
HIDRA A 12 node cluster built by the University of Barcelona's UB-UPC Dynamical Systems Group.
DeepFlow A 16 node Alpha-PC based cluster built by the viscoelastic group at Universite' catholique de Louvain.
Avalon is a 140 processor Alpha Beowulf cluster. It is co-operative venture of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Center for Nonlinear Studies and Theoretical Division.
JPL's High Performance Computing Group Contains pointers to Hyglac: The Beowulf System at JPL.
Collage A Beowulf class computer for experiments in distributed rendering and visualization.
U. Louisville An 8-processor Pentium-II system running CFD codes.
Weland A Beowulf class machine used by the Memorial University Seismic Imaging Consortium.
Intel Project at the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin.
wonderland Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, hosted by University of Texas at Austin.

Linux Parallel Processing

Parallel Processing using Linux

Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO

Beowulf Mailing Lists

Several mailing lists exist to support the Beowulf community. These lists are automatically managed by Majordomo and have been archived at several sites including the Beowolf Consortium hypermail archive. To subscribe to a mailing list, send a message with the single word "subscribe".

beowulf: For general Beowulf discussions and questions.
beowulf-announce: For announcements about new Beowulf clusters or new software packages.
beowulf-wishlist: For discussions about porting software packages to Beowulf and general software development.

Linux SMP Information

Linux SMP FAQ: US mirror of the Linux SMP FAQ
Linux SMP Archives: Linux SMP Archives
Linux SMP Motherboards: This page consists of experiences (initially from the linux-smp mailing list) about the performance of these motherboards running SMP Linux.

Linux Mailing List Archives

Linux

There are a large number of mailing lists related to Linux. They are hosted at various sites around the world. Indiana University has created hypermail archives of some that may be of interest. There are also text archives available via ftp.

Kernel Mailing List
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Linux on Alpha Mailing List
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Linux Networking Mailing List
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Big Linux (Linux as large servers) List
This list is now defunct as per <URL:http://www/hypermail/linux/big-linux/9603/0020.html>. Indiana University will be subscribing to and archiving some of the new lists in the afore-mentioned message as time permits.
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Related Projects:

The Beowolf Underground
The Scalable Computing Lab Ames Laboratory
Linux Links
Gigabit Ethernet
Gigabit Ethernet on Linux
Matt Welsh, et al / Cornell's U-Net Project
Werner Almesberger's Linux-ATM
Gigabit Ethernet and Low-Cost Supercomputing
John Scales' is using a Linux cluster at the CSM Center for Wave Phenomena.
Linux on the Fujitsu AP1000+.

Workshops and Conferences

Pentium Pro Cluster Workshop
April 10-11,1997
Scalable Cluster Workshop
November 21-22,1997
First NASA Workshop on Beowulf-class Clustered Computing
October 22-23, 1997

Articles

Internet Week

Towards Alpha based Beowolf Clusters with Gigabit Ethernet

Avalon, LANL
Alpha Cluster at Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM)
Beowolf Project - lots of information at CESDIS.
SWARM, Oregon State - advice on cases
DEC Alpha
AXP Linux
Linux at CESDIS The Center of Excellence in Space Data & Information Sciences.
Gigabit Ethernet
Gigabit Ethernet driver for Linux
Gigabit Ethernet and Low-Cost Supercomputing