Beowulf Clusters

Intro

• NASA's original:
  • How to Build a Beowulf Cluster,
  • FAQ.

Doc

• Beowulf HOWTOs:
  • Intro,
  • Installation and Administration.

Major Sites

• Beowulf Underground,

Remote Booting

• Remote [Booting] Linux Explained, Linux Journal, January 2002.

Parallel

• MPI:
  MPICH, a portable implementation of MPI.
  
  
• PVM:
  

Admin

• Ganglia: the ganglia cluster toolkit is a massively scalable cluster monitoring and execution environment written at the University of California, Berkeley Computer Science Division.
  
  
• bWatch (or beoWatch) is a simple Tcl/Tk program which produces a screen showing load and memory statistics for each node of the system.
  
  
• "Distributed" shells
  • dsh,
  • dish;
  
  
• Node cloning packages:
  • SystemImager automates Linux installs and software distribution, including rollbacks.
  
  
• rdate displays and sets the local date and time from the host name or address. (Necessary for syncing machines.)

Software Lists

• The Beowulf Underground list.

Mosix

• MOSIX

File Systems

• NFS
• PVFS

Articles:

• Modeling Seismic Wave Progration on a 156GB PC Cluster, Linux Journal, October 2001 --- very useful.
• MOSIX: A Cluster Load-Balancing Solution for Linux, Linux Journal, May 2001.
• Parallel Computing Using Linux, M Konchady, Linux Journal, January, 1998.
• Parallel Processing Using PVM, R.A. Sevenish, Linux Journal, January, 1998.