Seattle University Physics Beowulf Cluster

Overview
The SUBC is a 5-node Beowulf Cluster running on AMD Athlon XP 1800+ CPUs, 512MB DDR-RAM per machine, and a 100-base-T network. All nodes run Red Hat Linux 7.1, with a 2.4.2-2 kernel, and support the MPI standard using LAM-MPI. It was built for Physics research in the Spring and Summer of 2002, funded by a grant from the Society of Physics Students along with support from the Seattle University Physics Department.

Current Projects

Image Modeling and Rendering with POV-Ray and MPIPOV. Using clusterable rendering technology to create simulations of physical phenomena, in both still picture and motion video formats.

Images

A couple of photos will be posted soon.

Documentation

Documentation on configuring and administering the SUBC, written by Mike Clement during the Summer and Fall of 2002. Original conversion to HTML courtesy of Kevin Griffin. All documentation licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
User Guide for Students running projects on the SUBC - coming soon

Resources

Beowulf Underground.

Brown, Robert G. "Maximizing Beowulf Performance". August 28, 2000.
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/als2000/brownrobert.html

Gropp, William; Lusk, Ewing; Skjellum, Anthony. "Using MPI" Second Edition. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999.

LAM-MPI. http://www.lam-mpi.org

Pacheco, Peter S. "Parallel Programming with MPI." San Fransisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc, 1997.

Radajewski, Jacek and Eadline, Douglas. "Beowulf HOWTO", v1.1.1, November 22, 1998. Available at http://www.beowulf-underground.org/doc_project/index.html

Radajewski, Jacek and Eadline, Douglas. "Beowulf Installation and Configuration HOWTO", v0.1.2, June, 1999. Available at http://www.beowulf-underground.org/doc_project/index.html

Red Hat v7.x Support Page. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7-Manual/

Contact Information
Dr. David Boness, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Physics - email