Building a Beowulf Cluster
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A beowulf cluster is a cluster of computers designed to run computing jobs in parallel. This wikibook is going to give an up-to date example of assembled hardware, and installed programs (plus configuration). Finally there will be explanations of how to run processes in parallel in computing languages such as matlab and R. After the computers are setup we may want to transfer the configuration to other computers, a process which is called cloning. In the last chapter, we will deal with benchmarking and profiling.
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- Introduction
- Hardware
- Installation, Configuration, and Administration
- Parallelization of computation
- Cloning of Slaves
- Profiling and Benchmarking
