Boston Linux Meeting Today, July 16, 2008 Don Becker, CTO Penguin Computers - Beowulf clusters

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Wed Jul 16 07:31:11 EDT 2008


When: July 16, 2008 7:00PM (6:30 for Q&A)
Topic: Beowulf clusters
Moderator: Don Becker, CTO of Penguin Computing
Location:  MIT Building E51 Room 315 

Beowulf clusters are scalable performance clusters based on commodity
computers connected with a private system network.  They were named
after the NASA Beowulf Project, an effort to develop software for and
demonstrate the effectiveness of commodity cluster computing.

The challenge of commodity clusters has moved from basic machine
communication and communication library support to effective
administration and monitoring of large and changing numbers of machines.

Based on their Beowulf Project experience, Scyld has developed a
innovative cluster system that dramatically simplifies creating, using
monitoring and maintaining Beowulf clusters.  This talk will describe
the evolution of Beowulf systems, using the Scyld system as an
illustration of how cluster software has advanced from a collection of
individual ad hoc installations to elegant and efficient single system
image clusters that incrementally scale and tolerate failures.

For much more information, and Parking please
refer to http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2008-jul
There is a parking lot adjacent to building E-51 at 2 Amherst St. 

Note: The after-meeting meeting will be at The Cambridge Brewery. 

Also remember that the BLU BarBQue is on Saturday July 19
http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2008-bbq14 I'll post a separate
message next week.


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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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