As a cost-effective alternative to large supercomputers, Beowulf clusters are now deployed worldwide to support scientific computing. While Beowulf clusters yield high computing performance, they also pose several challenges: 1) Heat induced hardware failure makes large scale commodity clusters fail quite frequently, 2) Powering all the computer nodes without adapting to the varying work load m...

A significant development in high-performance computing has occurred in recent years with the proliferation of “Beowulf” clusters [6]. Beowulf clusters are parallel computers assembled from commodity-priced personal computers and networks. The explosive growth of the personal computer marketplace, together with rapid technological advances in the hardware sold there, has driven the price/perfor...

In recent years, the cost of microprocessors for PCs has reduced dramatically. This has led to the introduction of a new class of computing facility commonly known as Beowulf systems, in which commodity-off-the-shelf PCs and networking components are combined into a single cost-effective parallel system. We report our experiences in implementing a number of CFD codes on a 32-processor Beowulf-c...

Access to high-performance computing power remains crucial for many computational chemistry problems. Unfortunately, traditional supercomputers or cluster computing solutions from commercial vendors remain very expensive, even for entry level configurations, and are therefore often beyond the reach of many small to medium-sized research groups and universities. Clusters of networked commodity c...

Although Robert Zemeckis’s film Beowulf (2007) is a re-writing of the Old English epic with shifting perspective, certain details in can only be understood by referring to poem. That is, better understanding tied closely an awareness narrative elements epic. The emphasis on poem shifts Mother film. This shift obviously leads recontextualization former text. In epic, Grendel left without father;...