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Beowulf HOWTO
Beowulf HOWTO
Jacek Radajewski and Douglas Eadline
v1.1.1, 22 November 1998
This document introduces the Beowulf Supercomputer architecture and provides background information on parallel programming, including links to other more specific documents, and web pages.
1.
Preamble
1.1 Disclaimer
1.2 Copyright
1.3 About this HOWTO
1.4 About the authors
1.5 Acknowledgements
2.
Introduction
2.1 Who should read this HOWTO ?
2.2 What is a Beowulf ?
2.3 Classification
3.
Architecture Overview
3.1 What does it look like ?
3.2 How to utilise the other nodes ?
3.3 How does Beowulf differ from a COW ?
4.
System Design
4.1 A brief background on parallel computing.
4.2 The methods of parallel computing
4.3 Architectures for parallel computing
4.4 Suitability
4.5 Writing and porting parallel software
5.
Beowulf Resources
5.1 Starting Points
5.2 Documentation
5.3 Papers
5.4 Software
5.5 Beowulf Machines
5.6 Other Interesting Sites
5.7 History
6.
Source code
6.1 sum.c
6.2 sigmasqrt.c
6.3 prun.sh
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