BEOWULF Cluster at NMU
 

The BEOWULF Cluster is up and running!  (as of March 2001)

• Thanks to the work of Randy and Ryan Dieter in Fall of 2000, and to Denny Vandenberg and Mike Kowalcyzk in Winter 2001.
• As of April, 2001, there are 8 nodes working, with more on the way (donations accepted!)
• Has been tested by Denny with sample code for distributed calculation of Pi
• this code uses MPI (message passing interface)
• here is the code (on beowulf1 in /usr/mpi-beowulf/examples)
• Can learn MPI from these, at least the basics.
• Mike is finishing a distributed version of our GA++ code.
• Ask the Sys. Admin. (??) for an account, take the MPI sample code, and go with it!
• Let's get some distributed and parallel applications going.