[Beowulf] massive parallel processing application required

[John Hearns]

Mitchell Wisidagamage wrote:
> Hi all,
>  As part of my dissertation, I'm looking for "raw data" which will be 
> used for massive parallel processing using Beuwulf cluster (with the use 
> of PVM or MPI). I tried looking for e-science raw data (and the 
> computations required on it) such as bioinformatics, fluid dynamics, 
> etc. but without any luck.
> 
> Anyone has any idea of getting some raw data so I can give compute 
> intensive "work" to the nodes?

Mitchell,
   how about running the NIST Fire Dynamics simulation?
http://www.fire.nist.gov/fds/
It simulates the spread of smoke and fire in buildings.
There are some sample input models for download.

The Smokeview program visualizes the output, which will be a nice 
demonstration for your tutor.


But why not just go across to the Oxford E-science centre?
I know for sure they have one cluster there for handling large datasets!
Ask them for help in getting a suitable dataset for your project.

Drop me an email if I can give you any advice, you're in my neck of the 
woods.


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