Configuration and Performance of a Beowulf Cluster for Large-Scale Scientific Simulations

Authors:
Matthias K. Gobbert
Affiliations:
University of Maryland
Venue:
Computing in Science and Engineering
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Beowulf clusters use commodity components in their individual compute nodes, such as Intel Xeon CPUs, yielding a good return on investment. With a high-performance communication network and extended hard-disk storage, they become viable platforms for large-scale parallel applications. The judicious combination of a numerical algorithm, its efficient implementation, and the right hardware can achieve parallel computing's two fundamental goals: to solve problems faster and to solve larger problems than on a serial computer.