 Publications |
- The Stone SouperComputer - In the News!
- Hargrove, William W., Forrest
M. Hoffman, and Thomas Sterling. August 2001. "The
Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer."
Scientific
American, Vol. 265, No. 2, pp. 72-79.
- Hoffman, Forrest M. and William W. Hargrove. Winter 2000. "High
Performance Computing: An Introduction to Parallel Programming With
Beowulf." Open Source
Developers Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 24-31.
- Hargrove, W. W. and F. M. Hoffman. September 2-8, 2000. An
Analytical Assessment Tool for Predicting Changes in a Species
Distribution Map Following Changes in Environmental Conditions.
Proceedings of
the Fourth International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental
Modeling (GIS/EM4): Problems, Prospects and Research Needs,
Banff, Alberta, Canada.
- Gwo, J. P., F. M. Hoffman, and W. W. Hargrove. April 2000. Mechanistic-Based
Genetic Algorithm Search on a Beowulf Cluster of Linux PCs.
Proceedings of the High Performance Computing 2000 (HPC2000)
Conference, Washington, DC.
- Mahinthakumar, G., F. M. Hoffman, W. W. Hargrove,
and N. T. Karonis. November 13-15, 1999. Multivariate
Geographic Clustering in a Metacomputing Environment
Using Globus. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC99 Conference, Portland, OR.
- Hoffman, F. M. and W. W. Hargrove. Fall 1999. "Parallel
Computing With Linux." Crossroads,
Volume 6, Number 1.
- Hargrove, W. W. and F. M. Hoffman. July 26-30, 1999. "An Analytical Assessment Tool
for Predicting Changes in a Species Distribution Map Following Changes
in Environmental Conditions." In Proceedings of the 1999 ESRI
International User Conference CD-ROM (and World Wide Web site here).
- Hargrove, W. W. and F. M. Hoffman. July/August 1999. "Using Multivariate Clustering to
Characterize Ecoregion Borders." Computing in Science &
Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 18-25.
- Hoffman, F. M. and W. W. Hargrove. June 28-July 1, 1999. "Multivariate Geographic Clustering
Using a Beowulf-style Parallel Computer." In Proceedings of
the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processsing
Techniques and Applications (PDPTA '99), Volume III, H. R. Arabnia,
Ed. ISBN 1-892512-11-4, CSREA Press, pp. 1292-1298.
- Hoffman, Forrest M. and William W. Hargrove. Spring 1999. "Cluster
Computing: Linux Taken to the Extreme." Linux Magazine, Volume 1,
Number 1.
- Hoffman, Forrest M. and William W. Hargrove. May 1998. "Making
Soup from Stones." Troubleshooting
Professional, Volume 2, Issue 5.
| Applications |
| Beowulf WWW Sites |
| Links to Other Beowulf Computers |
. . . and then there is the original Beowulf manuscript and Beowulf
text.
| Beowulf (or Beowulf-Infiltrated) Events and Conferences |
- 2nd Cluster Computing in the Sciences Conference (8-9 February 2001)
- North
Carolina Geographic Information Systems Conference (1-2 March 2001)
- The
4th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
(10-14 October 2000)
- The 3rd Annual Atlanta
Linux Showcase (12-16 October 1999)
- The Fifth
Joint DOE/NASA PC Clustered Computing Conference (6-9 October 1999)
- The 1999 International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
Applications (PDPTA'99) (28 June - 1 July 1999, Monte Carlo
Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
- Extreme
Linux Workshop #2, in conjunction with the USENIX Annual Technical
Conference (8-11 June 1999, Monterey, California, USA)
- 5th Annual Linux Expo
(18-22 May 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA)
- LinuxWorld Conference
& Expo (2-4 March 1999, San Jose, California, USA)
- Supercomputing '98,
High Performance Networking and Computing Conference (7-13 November
1998, Orlando, Florida, USA)
- Seventh IEEE International
Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (28-31 July
1998, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- Linux
Expo '98 (28-30 May 1998, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina,
USA)
- Extreme
Linux Workshop #1 (12-13 February 1998, Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA)
- Scalable
Cluster Workshop (21-22 November 1997, Moneterey, California, USA)
- Pentium Pro Cluster
Workshop (10-11 April 1997, Des Moines, Iowa, USA)
- Cluster Computing
Conference - CCC '97 (9-11 March 1997, Emory University, Atlanta,
Georgia, USA)
| Programming Resources |
| Linux Resources |
| Other Stone Soups |
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While our first Beowulf-style parallel computer isn't built out of
the most impressive hardware, we got tired of fighting for funding and
went ahead with what we could find. Much like the classic Tale of Stone Soup,
many individuals contributed to the existing machine*. Because of a
complete lack of funding, we used surplus personal computers
donated by individuals from ORNL,
the Procurement Dept., Y-12, and K-25, to build a parallel computer
system which uses public domain compilers and message passing
libraries. This system was built at literally no cost.
Forrest M. Hoffman, William W. Hargrove, and Andrew J. Schultz
