MIT Press - Beowulf Cluster Computing with
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Beowulf
Cluster Computing with Linux, Second
Edition by William Gropp, Ewing
Lusk, Thomas Sterling ISBN:
0-262-69292-9, 618 Pages,
December 2003

Use of
Beowulf clusters (collections of off-the-shelf commodity
computers programmed to act in concert, resulting in
supercomputer performance at a fraction of the cost) has
spread far and wide in the computational science community.


Many application groups are assembling and
operating their own "private
supercomputers" rather than relying on centralized
computing centers.

Such clusters are
used in climate modeling, computational biology, astrophysics,
and materials science, as well as non-traditional areas such
as financial modeling and entertainment. Much of this new
popularity can be attributed to the growth of the open-source
movement.

The
second edition of Beowulf
Cluster Computing with Linux has been completely
updated; all three stand-alone sections have important new
material. The introductory material in the first part now
includes a new chapter giving an overview of the book and
background on cluster-specific issues, including why and how
to choose a cluster, as well as new chapters on cluster
initialization systems (including ROCKS
and OSCAR) and on network setup and
tuning.

The information on
parallel programming in the second part now includes chapters
on basic parallel programming and available libraries and
programs for clusters. The third and largest part of the book,
which describes software infrastructure and tools for managing
cluster resources, has new material on cluster management and
on the Scyld system.




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