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Beowulf cluster man becomes a Penguin
News Penguin Computing, a server maker specialising in machines running Linux, has signed an agreement to acquire Scyld Computing, the company founded by a pioneer of "Beowulf" Linux supercomputers. In 1994, while working at NASA, Becker helped to...
[June 10, 2003, 12:44]
Streamlining Beowulf Cluster Deployment With NPACI Rocks
White Papers For high-performance parallel-processing applications, Beowulf clusters that comprise industry-standard, two-processor and four processor servers can be a cost-effective alternative to symmetric multiprocessing computer systems and supercomputers.
[May 7, 2005, 3:00]
Characterizing the Performance of Overflow on Linux Beowulf Architectures
White Papers Linux PC Clusters are a cost effective platform for parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applications. In this paper, the authors compare the performance of the Overflow application on multiple clusters.
[April 3, 2007, 1:00]
Boeing puts Linux, AMD in orbit
News The system was built by Linux Networx, which specialises in "Beowulf" clusters -- gangs of networked Linux machines that collectively tackle computational problems. Though AMD is known chiefly for giving rival Intel a run for its money in the...
[March 15, 2001, 8:36]
Linux clusters scale better and cost less
News That's the primary reason Athwal's company, Lion Bioscience, is running a 44-node Beowulf cluster, powered by AMD Athlon Thunderbird processors, set up by Scyld Computing Corp. Becker, a cofounder of the Beowulf project at NASA in 1994, said...
[November 4, 2002, 11:43]
Sun expands supercomputer effort
News At the extreme of this newer trend are "Beowulf" clusters, with dozens or hundreds of lower-powered Linux servers. Computers in Beowulf clusters are linked with regular Ethernet network cards or special-purpose network cards from companies such as...
[November 18, 2002, 8:24]
Linux Focus: The Borg takes on NASA multi-processing
News Dubbed the Borg' after the entity featured in Star Trek that constituted a single intellect by combining the minds of all the people it assimilated, the 17-PC network is configured similarly to NASA's Beowulf' system.
[June 11, 1998, 13:05]
Is AMD losing its supercomputing lustre?
News The supercomputer is based on 32 of AMD's Athlon MP chips in dual-processing configurations, Wulfkit interconnects and Linux-based Beowulf clustering software. Though AMD is known chiefly for giving rival Intel a run for its money in the desktop...
[April 18, 2002, 16:55]
Crash test penguin: Chrysler meets Linux
News Increasingly, Linux clusters -- also known as Beowulf clusters -- are moving into the commercial domain. Beowulf clusters are good for brute-force tasks, but some users have begun applying the systems to jobs that require more finesse, such as chip...
[October 21, 2002, 8:19]
InfiniBand reborn for supercomputing
News One appealing feature of Beowulf clusters is that the same basic software works on inexpensive models with Ethernet connections and a few computers, and on high-end models with fast networking and thousands of systems.
[November 22, 2002, 8:25]
Blade server pioneer RLX boosts power
News The strategy, called "Beowulf" computing, typically uses the Linux operating system and special software called MPI (Message Passing Interface ) to shuttle information from one system to another. The challenge, however, is that IBM Global Services...
[February 17, 2003, 8:37]
Cray supercomputer will draw power from Sun
News Cray also has moved a step in the direction of the "Beowulf" method of making cheap supercomputers by wiring together dozens or even hundreds of Linux computers. The difference compared with regular Beowulf clusters is that the product incorporates...
[March 29, 2001, 10:06]
Supercomputers go even larger
News IBM dominates when it comes to systems -- called "Beowulf" supercomputers -- based on this latter approach. But the top-performing Beowulf cluster, a 512-processor machine at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, was built by Megware and uses...
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
Transmeta's low power finds place in supercomputers
News LANL says that the new server design, based on a very dense configuration of Crusoe-based blade servers running Linux Beowulf clustering software, has a total cost of ownership two-thirds less than comparable Intel or AMD systems.
[May 20, 2002, 12:47]
TechNet Webcast: High-Performance Computing With Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (Level 200)
White Papers High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Beowulf-style clusters are evolving from their roots in academia and government computing into new areas of computing such as genomics and finance. As these systems become easier to program and manage, a broader...
[December 31, 2008, 0:00]
Breaking New Ground: The Evolution of Linux Clustering
White Papers Clusters, derived from the pioneering Beowulf concept, provide a cost-effective alternative to proprietary supercomputers and Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) systems. Linux High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters are an example of innovation...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
IIT Kanpur Sets Up Mission Critical, High Performance Computing Powerhouse on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
White Papers After setting up its first experimental Beowulf cluster with 16 Pentium III class servers on Red Hat Linux 7, the benefits of using an open source platform became apparent. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur is one of the premier...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
IBM supercomputers to simulate climate change
News Irvine's project doesn't tap into one trend -- "Beowulf" clusters made of a large number of independent but networked Linux machines that divide a calculation job -- but it will tap into another: the use of the Linux operating system.
[February 11, 2004, 10:20]
Apple tempts with clustered servers
News Beowulf clusters, groups of low-priced servers ganged together to solve technical computing challenges typically using the Linux operating system, are increasingly popular as a way to solve some computing challenges.
[March 19, 2003, 7:50]
Linux to enter supercomputing top five
News In last month's Top500 ranking of supercomputers, the fastest Linux cluster ranked at only 35 -- a 512-node "Beowulf" cluster at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in California, is to build...
[July 17, 2002, 13:10]
