Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, July 16, 2008 with abstract: Beowulf clusters

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 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 <[hidden email]> 
Boston Linux and Unix 
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