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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This is what I wrote to someone on a different mail list, but is relevent to your question ....</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The best sources of information is of course the net. I would start with the HOWTOs. The following give a good general knowledge of the subject.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">1) Beowulf-HOWTO</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">2) Parallel-Processing-HOWTO</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">3) SMP-HOWTO</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The NFS-HOWTO and the NIS-HOWTO are also very useful.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">In a Beowulf cluster, parallel processing is done by message passing, instead of shared memory in a SMP (symetric multi-processing) systems. The 2 most popular message passing systems are PVM (http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html) and MIPS (http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/). PVM is older so the code base is larger. MIPS until recently, was forked into several competing versions, and much newer. Most observers believe MIPS will eventually replace PVM as the defacto standard, as a new standard has been written. Porting of PVM code to MIPS is also reportedly trivial.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">My code is in the planning/design stage currently. My 3D modeler is currently being coded, but is taking significantly longer than anticipated. I am also currently obtaining new hardware to build a new 5 node cluster. So my parallel code ....</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Here is some advice I got from the GTK+ mailing list:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Dani Mezher:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">"I did the same to build the frontend of an MPI parallel code. The<br>
frontend I built is a stand alone process that uses a TCP/IP socket to connect to<br>
the server node; this works just fine."</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Slyder:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">"Well, I'd keep it a modular system. Have a piece that handles the input<br>
(modelling, and a piece that does the PVM [CFD/FE/FDTD/etc] processing. <br>
Mayvbe a thread to handle execution of the solver. I'm actually working <br>
on something similar, though I'm about to do a rewrite, so my code may<br>
or may not be of much use..."</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Hope this helps.</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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cheers,<br>
Jim Parker<br>
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Sailboat racing is not a matter of life and death .... It is far more important than that !!!</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>Shain Miley <jubbi2g@yahoo.com></b></font>
<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: beowulf-admin@beowulf.org</font>
<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">01/24/01 09:45 AM</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Hi all,<br>
I am new to the concept of clusters but I have been<br>
doing a lot of reading recently because I would like<br>
to get some experience with clusters...my question is<br>
what are or were can I find information on some (free)<br>
applications that I can run on a beowulf cluster. I<br>
would not be setting up anything to fancy at first<br>
maybe a 2 or 4 node cluster but I have no idea what I<br>
could run on this cluster. Thanks for the help.<br>
Shain<br>
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