5. Risorse per Beowulf

5.1 Per cominciare

• La mailing list di Beowulf. Per iscriversi mandare un messaggio a beowulf-request@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov con la parola subscribe nel corpo del messaggio.
• La homepage di Beowulf http://www.beowulf.org
• Extreme Linux http://www.extremelinux.org
• Extreme Linux Software di Red Hat http://www.redhat.com/extreme

5.2 Documentazione

• L'ultima versione del Beowulf HOWTO http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/beowulf.
• Costruire un sistema Beowulf http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/beowulf/tutorial/building.html
• I link di Jacek su Beowulf http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/beowulf.
• Beowulf Installation and Administration HOWTO (DRAFT) http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/beowulf.
• Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO http://yara.ecn.purdue.edu/~pplinux/PPHOWTO/pphowto.html

5.3 Documenti cartacei

• Chance Reschke, Thomas Sterling, Daniel Ridge, Daniel Savarese, Donald Becker, and Phillip Merkey A Design Study of Alternative Network Topologies for the Beowulf Parallel Workstation. Proceedings Fifth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 1996. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/HPDC96/hpdc96.html
• Daniel Ridge, Donald Becker, Phillip Merkey, Thomas Sterling Becker, and Phillip Merkey. Harnessing the Power of Parallelism in a Pile-of-PCs. Proceedings, IEEE Aerospace, 1997. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/AA97/aa97.ps
• Thomas Sterling, Donald J. Becker, Daniel Savarese, Michael R. Berry, and Chance Res. Achieving a Balanced Low-Cost Architecture for Mass Storage Management through Multiple Fast Ethernet Channels on the Beowulf Parallel Workstation. Proceedings, International Parallel Processing Symposium, 1996. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/IPPS96/ipps96.html
• Donald J. Becker, Thomas Sterling, Daniel Savarese, Bruce Fryxell, Kevin Olson. Communication Overhead for Space Science Applications on the Beowulf Parallel Workstation. Proceedings,High Performance and Distributed Computing, 1995. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/HPDC95/hpdc95.html
• Donald J. Becker, Thomas Sterling, Daniel Savarese, John E. Dorband, Udaya A. Ranawak, Charles V. Packer. BEOWULF: A PARALLEL WORKSTATION FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION. Proceedings, International Conference on Parallel Processing, 95. http://www.beowulf.org/papers/ICPP95/icpp95.html
• Papers at the Beowulf site http://www.beowulf.org/papers/papers.html

5.4 Software

• PVM - Parallel Virtual Machine http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html
• LAM/MPI (Local Area Multicomputer / Message Passing Interface) http://www.mpi.nd.edu/lam
• BERT77 - FORTRAN conversion tool http://www.plogic.com/bert.html
• Beowulf software from Beowulf Project Page http://beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/software.html
• Jacek's Beowulf-utils ftp://ftp.sci.usq.edu.au/pub/jacek/beowulf-utils
• Beowulfatch - cluster monitoring tool http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/Beowulfatch

5.5 Macchine Beowulf

• Avalon è composto da 140 processori Alpha, 36 GB di RAM ed è probabilmente la più veloce macchina Beowulf, viaggiando a 47,7 Gigaflop e si trova al 114° posto della lista dei 500 computer più veloci. http://swift.lanl.gov/avalon/
• Megalon-A Massively PArallel CompuTer Resource (MPACTR) è composto da 14 nodi CPU Pentium Pro quadriprocessore 200 e da 14 GB di RAM. http://megalon.ca.sandia.gov/description.html
• theHIVE - Highly-parallel Integrated Virtual Environment è un altro veloce Supercomputer Beowulf. theHIVE è composto da 64 nodi, 128 CPU per un totale di 4 GB RAM. http://newton.gsfc.nasa.gov/thehive/
• Topcat è una macchina molto più piccola e consiste di 16 CPU e da 1,2 GB di RAM. http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/topcat
• MAGI cluster - questo è un sito molto interessante con molti link interessanti. http://noel.feld.cvut.cz/magi/

5.6 Altri siti interessanti

• SMP Linux http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html
• Paralogic - Buy a Beowulf http://www.plogic.com

5.7 Storia

• Leggende - Beowulf http://legends.dm.net/beowulf/index.html
• Le avventure di Beowulf http://www.lnstar.com/literature/beowulf/beowulf.html