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From: Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NYLUG Announcements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [nylug-announce] New York Linux User's Group Meeting January 18th, 2006: Donald Becker -on- The Evolution of Beowulf Linux Clustering January 18th, 2006 Wednesday 6:30PM-8:00PM IBM Headquarters Building 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street 12th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency ** RSVP Instructions ** You must RSVP for *EVERY* meeting. Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/ Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number. Donald Becker -on- The Evolution of Beowulf Linux Clustering Beowulf clusters are scalable performance clusters based on commodity computers connected with a private system network. They were named after the NASA Beowulf Project, an effort to develop software for and demonstrate the effectiveness of commodity cluster computing. The challenge of commodity clusters has moved from basic machine communication and communication library support to effective administration and monitoring of large and changing numbers of machines. Based on their Beowulf Project experience, Scyld has developed a innovative cluster system that dramatically simplifies creating, using monitoring and maintaining Beowulf clusters. This talk will describe the evolution of Beowulf systems, using the Scyld system as an illustration of how cluster software has advanced from a collection of individual ad hoc installations to elegant and efficient single system image clusters that incrementally scale and tolerate failures. The Scyld Beowulf system management model presents the cluster to the end user and administrator as a single standard Linux installation. All elements of the system are installed and updated on this system, unchanged from a single machine. Applications are started, monitored and controlled just as they would with an SMP. Internally the system is structured as a full featured master node that controls specialized compute nodes. The master node has a full, standard operating system installation with cluster-specific extensions. Compute nodes are automatically detected and added to the cluster. They are provisioned with only the minimal elements required to run applications started from a master, and initially are pure process execution slave. Compute nodes have no configuration files, daemons or file systems, either local or network, required for the base system. This architectures, along with internal mechanisms for job creation and directory services, allow building clusters that are maintained exactly as a single standard Linux installation while scaling with the dynamic addition and removal of machines. New machines can be provisioned with applications just a few seconds after starting a network boot. Machine disconnects or failures are handled gracefully, without causing a cascade of failures. About Donald Becker Donald Becker founded Scyld Computing Corporation in 1998 and is currently Chief Technology Officer of Penguin Computing and Chief Scientist of Scyld Software, now part of Penguin Computing. He has a long history in compiler development, networking, parallel computing and cluster computing. He co-founded the Beowulf Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in 1994, and was a major developer of the early Linux kernel networking, writing essentially all of the network device drivers through 2000. Swag (Give Away) - During the meeting... unusually terrific swag of non-predetermined origin will be given out to all attendees at the regular meeting for free as usual. Stammtisch After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's, located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor. Northeast corner. Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good stuff. ______________________________________________________________________ Hire expert Linux talent by posting jobs here :: http://jobs.nylug.org nylug-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-announce </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
