Glenn K. Lockwood from SDSC writes that setting up a working set of EC2 instances that have the necessary configuration to run MPI applications can be quite daunting, so he has posted a guide. Most ...

For more about what hardware you need to build a cluster, see the other articles in HPC 101. You’ve been shopping at your favorite hardware vendor, and you have a cluster all picked out. Number of ...

One of the key themes to improving the performance of clusters running simulations has been the offloading of common routines from the central processors in the servers to accelerators in the network ...

In the spring of 2001, my students and I constructed a Beowulf cluster in the Wayne City High School computer science laboratory using MPICH 1.2.2.2 (an implementation of the MPI library) and Red Hat ...