5. Beowulf资源

5.1 起点

• Beowulf mailing list. 只要电子邮件寄到 beowulf-request@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov ，在邮件内容填上 subscribe 。
• Beowulf 网页 http://www.beowulf.org
• Extreme Linux http://www.extremelinux.org
• 在RedHat网站上的Extreme Linux 软件 http://www.redhat.com/extreme

5.2 文件

• Beowulf HOWTO最新版本 http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/beowulf.
• 架设一个Beowulf系统 http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/beowulf/tutorial/building.html
• Jacek的 Beowulf 连结 http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/beowulf.
• Beowulf安装维护HOWTO http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/beowulf.
• Linux平行计算HOWTO http://yara.ecn.purdue.edu/~pplinux/PPHOWTO/pphowto.html

5.3 相关论文

• Chance Reschke, Thomas Sterling, Daniel Ridge, Daniel Savarese, Donald Becker, and Phillip Merkey A Design Study of Alternative Network Topologies for the Beowulf Parallel Workstation. Proceedings Fifth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 1996. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/HPDC96/hpdc96.html
• Daniel Ridge, Donald Becker, Phillip Merkey, Thomas Sterling Becker, and Phillip Merkey. Harnessing the Power of Parallelism in a Pile-of-PCs. Proceedings, IEEE Aerospace, 1997. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/AA97/aa97.ps
• Thomas Sterling, Donald J. Becker, Daniel Savarese, Michael R. Berry, and Chance Res. Achieving a Balanced Low-Cost Architecture for Mass Storage Management through Multiple Fast Ethernet Channels on the Beowulf Parallel Workstation. Proceedings, International Parallel Processing Symposium, 1996. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/IPPS96/ipps96.html
• Donald J. Becker, Thomas Sterling, Daniel Savarese, Bruce Fryxell, Kevin Olson. Communication Overhead for Space Science Applications on the Beowulf Parallel Workstation. Proceedings,High Performance and Distributed Computing, 1995. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/HPDC95/hpdc95.html
• Donald J. Becker, Thomas Sterling, Daniel Savarese, John E. Dorband, Udaya A. Ranawak, Charles V. Packer. BEOWULF: A PARALLEL WORKSTATION FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION. Proceedings, International Conference on Parallel Processing, 95. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/ICPP95/icpp95.html
• Papers at the Beowulf site http://www.beowulf.org/papers/papers.html

5.4 软件

• PVM - Parallel Virtual Machine http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html
• LAM/MPI (Local Area Multicomputer / Message Passing Interface http://www.mpi.nd.edu/lam
• BERT77 - FORTRAN conversion tool http://www.plogic.com/bert.html
• Beowulf software from Beowulf Project Page http://beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/software.html
• Jacek's Beowulf-utils ftp://ftp.sci.usq.edu.au/pub/jacek/beowulf-utils
• bWatch - cluster monitoring tool http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/bWatch

5.5 Beowulf机器

• Avalon 是由 140台Alpha 处理器组成，36GB内存，可能是最快的Beowulf机器，计算速度高达47.7Gflops，在全世界前五百快的机器中排名第114。 http://swift.lanl.gov/avalon/
• Megalon-A Massively PArallel CompuTer Resource (MPACTR)由14台个人电脑组成，每台电脑内有四颗Pentium Pro200处理器，总共有14GB内存 http://megalon.ca.sandia.gov/description.html
• HIVE - Highly-parallel Integrated Virtual Environment 是另一套高速的Beowulf超级电脑，有64个计算节点，共计128颗处理器，4GB内存。 http://newton.gsfc.nasa.gov/thehive/
• Topcat 是一套比较小型的机器，总共有16颗处理器和1.2GB内存。 http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/topcat
• MAGI cluster 是个有趣的网站，内有许多有趣的连结。 http://noel.feld.cvut.cz/magi/

5.6 其他有趣的网站

• SMP Linux http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html
• Paralogic - Buy a Beowulf http://www.plogic.com

5.7 历史

• Legends - Beowulf http://legends.dm.net/beowulf/index.html
• The Adventures of Beowulf http://www.lnstar.com/literature/beowulf/beowulf.html