Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday May 17, 2000 Beowulf clusters

[gaf at gaf.ne.mediaone.net (Jerry Feldman)]

Note: Sorry for the late post. There was an error in my address book, so 
the message went to several lists, but not the BLU list.
--- Also note that TAOS will be providing refreshments during the meeting. 
-----

When: May 17, 2000 7:00 p.m. (6:30PM Q&A)
Topic: Supercomputing with Beowulf Clusters
Presented by: Kurt Keville (kkeville at alum.mit.edu)
Location:  MIT Building 3-133

Beowulf  is a cluster computers running an OS like Linux or FreeBSD 
interconnected on a high speed network. Instead of a single supercomuter 
trying to run very fast, computing is shared among the computers in the 
cluster using a technique known as massively parallel. Beowulf clusters can 
be implemented using low cost PC technology providing scientists 
supercomputing power for thousands rather than millions of dollars.  Kurt 
is revisiting the Beowulf lecture he presented at MIT in January.
Here are some related links:
Kurt's home page:http://web.mit.edu/kkeville/www/
Beowulf Project at CESDIS:http://www.beowulf.org/ Good background on 
Beowulf.

For further information and directions, please refer to the BLU home 
page:http://www.blu.org/
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with
"subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the
message body to announce-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).

-
Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with
"subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the
message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).