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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. -- Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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