FW: CREN TechTalk - Research Computing and Linux Clusters - March (fwd)

[Marcel Kunath]

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> RESEARCH COMPUTING AND LINUX CLUSTERS: a free audiocast from CREN
> http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/linux.html
> Thursday, March 16, 4 pm Eastern
>
> Listen at your desktop and ask questions by email as expert Kevin Morooney
> of Pennsylvania State University answers questions about
> the "creeping kudzu" phenomenon of Linux on campus, and specifically
> about its use to create inexpensive, high-speed research computing
> opportunities.
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> -- LONG "BLURB" --
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>                                     Research and Educational Networking
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> THIS WEEK'S "TECH TALK WITH THE EXPERTS" IS THURSDAY, MARCH 16
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>      --> Thursday, March 16 at 4:00 pm Eastern
>      --> http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/linux.html
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>      --> RESEARCH COMPUTING AND LINUX CLUSTERS
>      --> http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/linux.html
>
>      --> GUEST EXPERTS FOR THIS EVENT
>      --> Kevin Morooney is Director, Director, Graduate Education and
>      --> Research Services, Center for Academic Computing
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>
> -- THE ISSUES
> -- http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/linux.html
>
> Why does our expert say that Linux is creeping in everywhere because
> it "unburdens what are normally the shackles on creativity?" Is Linux
> creeping into your research org? How does Linux let you repurpose
> older, otherwise antiquated hardware? Does Linux offer a cost-effective
> way to achieve general purpose parallel computing cycles with high
> performance and high reliability? What is Beowulf? Why Linux? Who is
> trying this? How is it working? Is it hard to do? Should you consider
> it? How would you get started?
>
> Plan now to send in your questions to expert@cren.net and join our
> co-hosts on March 16 as they quiz Kevin Morooney about "Research
> Computing and Linux Clusters."
>
>
> -- OUR GUEST EXPERT
> -- http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/linux.html
>
> Kevin Morooney is Director, Graduate Education and Research Services,
> Center for Academic Computing at Pennsylvania State University  where,
> among other things, he is involved with the work of the Numerically
> Intensive Computing Group on the Lion-X high speed Linux cluster.
> He says that Linux lets him get things done
> that he would never otherwise get to do. Here's your chance to hear
> why!
>
>
> -- OUR SPONSOR FOR THIS EVENT IS MYRICOM
> -- http://www.myricom.com
>
> Myricom is the designer and manufacturer of Myrinet: a high-
> performance, cost-effective packet communication and switching
> technology. The principal features of Myrinet are low latency,
> high data rate, low host processor utilization, high availability,
> and unlimited scalability. Myrinet is the interconnect solution
> of choice for scalable cluster computing and will be introducing
> its next generation "Myrinet2000" in June of 2000.
>
>
> -- OUR TECH TALK HOSTS
> -- http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/linux.html
>
> Technology Anchor Howard Strauss is Manager of Academic Applications
> at Princeton University and is widely known as an expert on leading
> edge information technologies and higher education. CREN's Executive
> Director Judith Boettcher serves as Co-host for the Tech Talk events.
>
>
> -- SOME RESOURCES AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
> -- http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/linux.html
>
> If you know of additional useful resources on this topic, please let
> us know: tcalhoun@scup.org. Thanks!
>
> Here are some links to basic Linux resources:
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>      http://www.chronicle.com/free/2000/03/2000030201t.htm
>      Linux has been in the higher education news recently.
>      Here's a timely Chronicle article, "Universities Turn to Linux
>      for an Inexpensive Operating System," by Kelly McCollum.
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>      http://www.redhat.com
>      Red Hat
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>      http://www.linux.org
>      Linux Online
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>      http://www.linux.com
>      Linux.com
>
> Here are some advanced computational systems resources:
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> http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/Uni/RZ/Hardware/SP2/Workshop.mhpcc/paralle
> l-intro/ParallelIntro.html
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>      An Introduction to Parallel Programming from the Maui High
>      Performance Computing
>
>      http://www.eot.org/
>      The Education, Outreach and Training Partnership for Advanced
>      Computational Infrastructure
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>      http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
>      National Computational Science Alliance
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>      http://www.npaci.edu/
>      National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
>      (NPACI)
>
> Here are annotated links to some very specific resources:
>
>      http://cac.psu.edu/beatnic/Cluster/Lionx/lionx.html
>      The Lion-X Cluster at Penn State is a high speed Linux cluster.
>
>      http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/
>      Avalon is a 140 processor Alpha Beowulf cluster at the Los Alamos
>      National Laboratory Center for Nonlinear Studies.
>
>      http://www.alliance.unm.edu/general/about.html
>      Roadrunner is a linux cluster operated by the University of New
>      Mexico for the NCSA PACI partnership.
>
>      http://oscinfo.osc.edu/computing/beo/index.html
>      The Ohio Supercomputer Center has recently acquired a 128 processor
>      Linux Cluster from SGI. This page points to using a smaller, older
>      one but you get the point.
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>      http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/
>      The Berkeley Network of Workstations (NOW) project seeks to harness
>      the power of clustered machines connected via high-speed switched
>      networks.
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>      http://www.lobos.nih.gov/
>      LoBoS is an implementation of a Beowulf class computer in the
>      Computational Biophysics Section at the National Institutes of
>      Health.
>
>      http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/beowulf.html
>      This is the Beowulf Project at NASA CESDIS.
>
>      http://www.beowulf.org/consortium.html
>      Beowulf Consortium: In addition to a growing list of links to other
>      Beowulf sites, the Beowulf Consortium provides a opportunity for
>      sharing ideas among groups that are developing Beowulf software or
>      developing application for Beowulf clusters.
>
>      http://www.rwcp.or.jp/home-E.html
>      Real World Computing Partnership is a collection of Pentium or
>      Alpha systems linked via giga-speed networks
>
> If you really want to dig deep and go the full book route, here are
> a couple of recent books available from Amazon.com:
>
>      http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/156592469X/cren
>      Running Linux by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Lar Kaufman,
>      and Matthew Welsh; and
>
>      http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861002971/cren
>      Beginning Linux Programming (2nd Ed) by Richard Stones and Neil
>      Matthew.
>
>
> -- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR THIS EVENT
>
> Topic:    RESEARCH COMPUTING AND LINUX CLUSTERS
>            http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/linux.html
>
> Who:      Guest Expert: Kevin Morooney of Pennsylvania State University
>
>            Technology Anchor: Howard Strauss, Manager of Advanced
>            Applications, Princeton University
>
>            Co-Host: Judith Boettcher, Executive Director, Corporation
>            for Research and Educational Networking (CREN)
>
> When:     Thursday, March 16, from 4:00 pm to 4:45 pm Eastern
>
> Where:    http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/linux.html
>            To join the webcast, just go to this URL, and then
>            select the highlighted "Audio Event" link. That link
>            becomes active at 4:00 pm Eastern on March 16.
>
> How:      At your desktop work station, listening to the live
>            Audiocast using RealAudio.
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