Powerful, low-cost clusters of personal computers, such as Beowulf clusters, have fueled the potential for widespread distributed computation. While these Beowulf clusters typically have software that facilitates development of distributed applications, there is still a need for effective distributed computation that is transparent to the application programmer. The PANTS Application Node Trans...

This paper presents the design and development of the Beowulf cluster that can be used by institutions to perform research that requires high performance computing. In many industries and scientific applications there is often a need to analyse large datasets using computational power of distributed and parallel systems. The High Performance Computing (HPC) components are very expensive but wit...

The implementation and performance of the multidimensional Fast Fourier Transform on a distributed memory Beowulf cluster is examined. We focus on the the three dimensional (3D) real transform, an essential computational component of Galerkin and pseudo-spectral codes. The approach studied is a one-dimensional domain decomposition algorithm that relies on communication-intensive transpose opera...

The variety of parallel architectures nowadays available implies that models for parallel software development should deliver acceptable performance on a range of architectures with minimal development effort. One approach is to use languages with very high level, and substantially architecture-independent, specification of parallel coordination. This paper presents a novel profiling-based meth...

MIS curricula in business schools are challenged to provide MIS courses that give students a strong practical understanding of the basic technologies, while also providing enough hands-on experience to solve real life problems. As an experimental capstone MIS course, the authors developed a cluster-computing project to expose business students to the technologies of distributed computing, paral...

In this work we describe the implementation of a 216processor Beowulf cluster with switched gigabit Ethernet networking. This design includes the use of a 8-CPU high performance midrange computer with 8 gigabit ports as a cluster head, a design that limits I/O contention. We have been developing applications software for bioinformatics research in protein folding, as well as the MoBiDiCK system...

We investigate two similar but contrasting parallel functional language designs: Eden and GPH. Both languages use the non-strict functional language Haskell as a core expression language, both are implemented as extensions of the high performance Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), and both implementations are available on the same distributed architecture: a Beowulf cluster. This allows an excepti...