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Beowulf Distributed Computer Cluster

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Welcome to Beowulf

Beowulf is a beowulf class distributed computer built and maintained by the Biegler, Hauan, and Kitchin research groups in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Construction was made possible through grants from the National Science Foundation and the Intel University Program.

This website contains background information about the cluster, reference material for cluster users as well as up-to-the-minute status information about the current operational state. Click on the pictures below for a closeup view.

[picture of the cluster room] [picture of the node racks] [picture of the servers]

Some facts about Beowulf

  • Beowulf is a cluster of 70 computers: 4 servers and 66 nodes
  • The nodes are rack mounted with high-speed switched interconnects.
  • Cluster aggregate:
    • 137 physical processors (219 logical)
    • 170 GB physical memory
    • 300 GB virtual memory
    • ~ 4.1 TB total hard disk space

    • Theoretical peak performance ~ 600 Gflops
Fri Dec 9 13:06:18 2005