BEOWULF: Educational Cluster of 5 PC's for Student Projects
Assembled: Winter 2000/01
Retired: Winter 2003/04
Peak Performance
2 GIGAFLOPS
Nodes
5 DELL OptiPlex G1 400L+ PC's
400 MHz Intel Pentium II Celeron Processor
160 MB SDRAM, 128 KB L2 Cache
4 GB Hard Disk
Node Interconnect
Switched Fast (100 Mbps) Ethernet
Operating System
Scyld
Beowulf Cluster OS (based on Red Hat Linux 6.2)
Parallel Software
MPI library
MPICH
integrated as part of Scyld Beowulf OS
has Fortran, C, and C++ bindings
Parallel shell (bpsh), part of Scyld Beowulf OS
External Interface
Remote logins to the Master node
Keyboard-Video-Mouse attached to Master node
Use
Teaching (Student Projects)
Benchmark Results
Contact
:
Dr. R. Zaritski