
Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux
Foreword by Jon "maddog" Hall
MIT Press
2nd Edition
Published on 21. November 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
660 pages
978-0-262-69292-2 (ISBN)
Description
The completely updated second edition of a guide to Beowulf cluster computing.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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Series
Edition
second edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
1157 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-69292-2 (9780262692922)
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Persons
Thomas Sterling is a Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University, a Faculty Associate at California Institute of Technology, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Editor
Thomas M. Siebel ChairUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Argonne Distinguished Fellow EmeritusArgonne National Laboratory
Indiana University
Foreword