Information on Beowulf-Style Cluster Computing

Last updated August 12, 1999

Beo-Places

• www.beowulf.org
• Center for Advanced Computing Research at California Institute of Technology (http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mark)
• Tutorial on beowulf: http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/beowulf/tutorial/tutorial.html
• http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/ClusterCookbook/
• http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/beowulf.html
• http://www-hpc.jpl.nasa.gov/PEP/dsk/mp-opt/

Beo-Folks

• Thomas J. Sterling, Cal Tech and NASA JPL, Pasadena, California was invited speaker at Genetic Programming 1998 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. His paper explaining Beowulf-style parallel cluster computing appears in the GP-98 conference proceedings book.

Beo-Book

Sterling, Thomas L., Salmon, John, and Becker, Donald J., and Savarese, Daniel F. 1999. How to Build a Beowulf: A Guide to Implementation and Application of PC Clusters. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Beo-Mail

The WWW page (http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/beowulf/consortium.html) has 3 beowulf mailing lists:

• beowulf-request@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
• beowulf-announce-request@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
• beowulf-wishlist-request@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov

World's Fastest Supercomputers

• http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/top500/top500.list.html
• http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/top500/stats.html

Intel's Teraflops Machine

Click here for information about Intel's new teraflop machine.

• http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/cn121796.htm
  
• http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/cn1217fs.htm
• Photo of the Sandia Computer

Petaflops Computing

David Bailey

NASA

650-604-4403

dbailey@nas.nasa.gov

• http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~dbailey/dbailey.html
• http://science.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/AAA/PAL97/PAL97.html
• http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petaflops/applications/

Site for current CPU and RAM Prices

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Click here for information about CPUs.

· The home page of Genetic Programming Inc. at http://www.genetic-programming.com/

· The home page of John R. Koza at Genetic Programming Inc.

· The home page of Forrest H Bennett III, Chief Scientist of Genetic Programming Inc.

· The home page of John R. Koza at Stanford University

· For information about the two annual genetic programming conferences (GECCO-2000 and Euro-GP-2000) and the field of genetic programming in general, visit www.genetic-programming.org.