[Beowulf] Writing MPICH2 programs

[Michael Gauckler]

> Has anyone written any nice MPI test programs that I could use to test
> my cluster? I've been using the ones given with the MPICH2 distribution,
> but it'd be good to try some others.

A nice demo for a cluster is the parallel version of a raytracer. Google
for "mpi povray". With the graphics version you can see the blocks which
the slaves return, which is quite impressive.

Chers, 
 Michael