How to Build a Beowulf: A Guide to the Implementation and Application of PC Clusters (Scientific and Engineering Computation) (Cellular and Molecular Neuropharmacology)

Savarese, Daniel F.

ISBN 10: 026269218X / ISBN 13: 9780262692182

Published by MIT Press, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Build a Beowulf: A Guide to the Implementation and Application of PC Clusters (Scientific and Engineering Computation) (Cellular and Molecular Neuropharmacology)
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026269218X
• ISBN 13: 9780262692182
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This how-to guide provides step-by-step instructions for building aBeowulf-type computer, including the physical elements that make up aclustered PC computing system, the software required (most of which isfreely available), and insights on how to organize the code to exploitparallelism.

About the Authors

Donald J. Becker is Staff Scientist at the Center for Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.

John Salmon is Staff Scientist at the California Institute of Technology.

Daniel F. Savarese is the founder of Savarese Software Research. He founded ORO, was a senior scientist at Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research, and worked as vice president of software development for WebOS.

Thomas Sterling is a Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University, a Faculty Associate at California Institute of Technology, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

William Gropp is Director of the Parallel Computing Institute and Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.