A Beowulf Cluster for Teaching and Learning

Making A Beowulf Cluster

The Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) was established jointly by the Schools of Engineering and Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. SCOREC models real world physical reactions by simulating them on computers. The numerical solution of these models often requires discretizations with a number of unknowns approaching one billion. Problems of this scale can only be solved on...

Beowulf Cluster Design for Scientific PDE Models

This paper details some of the basic issues that arise when designing a Beowulf cluster for particular types of scientific simulations. The general problems of interest are partial differential equations (PDEs). These equations describe natural phenomenon and can be numerically solved. Finite differencing is used to solve the system of equations. This method naturally delineates the problem int...

KSIX Parallel Environment for Beowulf Cluster

Creating a Raspberry Pi-Based Beowulf Cluster

Lattice QCD on a Beowulf Cluster

Even a modest lattice QCD project demands quite large amount of computing resources. In this regard, it has always been an attractive idea to build a cheap high performance computing platform out of commodity PC’s and commodity networking devices. However, the availability of cheap hardware components solved only a part of problem in building a parallel computer in the past. There were large hi...