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Overview
Introduction
The Cluster Computing Group at Earlham is a group of faculty and student
researchers working on tools and techniques for effectively using Beowulf
style compute clusters for interdisciplinary computational science research.
Within that framework we have focused on these particular areas:
- Computational science education. Tools (software and hardware) and curriculum modules for teaching computational science to undergraduates and faculty.
- Molecular dynamics software. Molecular dynamics software is the principle software component of computationally based research into protein folding and structure determination.
Projects
Acme : Acme = LittleFe + BCCD + Computational Science Education Reference Desk
SC06 Acme Poster (PDF, 649KB)
LittleFe : The portable cluster for computational science
education, http://LittleFe.net
The Register article November, 2006
The Bootable Cluster CD (BCCD) : Software tools for
computational science education, http://bccd.cs.uni.edu
Low Latency Linux Kernel
Folding@Clusters : Harnessing HPC resources for large scale distributed molecular dynamics
Benchmarking and tuning molecular dynamics packages
Methods for calculating 1/sqrt(x) in the context of molecular
dynamics simulations
Facilities
- Beowulf Clusters
- BobSCEd : 8 node, 2 motherboard, 4 core Xeon, (64 cores total) running Debian; ~500 GFLOPs (coming on-line Q1, 2007)
- Cairo : 16 PowerPC G4 dual processor nodes running YellowDog
Linux
Detailed description
- Bazaar : 20 PIII dual processor nodes running Suse Linux
Detailed description
- Support Servers
- hopper.cluster.earlham.edu
- admin.cluster.earlham.edu
- Overall Network Architecture
Support
Our work is supported by donations and grants from the National Computational Science Institute, the SC Education Program, the Intel Corporation, Freescale Incorpated, Genesi Incorporated, Ray Ontko &
Company, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Arthur Vining
Davis Foundation, Earlham College, and Safe Passage Communications,
Inc.
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