This series of articles will cover the basics of Beowulf Clusters otherwise known also High Performance Computing Clusters (HPCC) or High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC).

Table of Contents:

KUSU 101: What is Beowulf Cluster Computing ?

• 1.1 History
• 1.2 Parallel Computing Architectures
• 1.3 The Beowulf Cluster
• 1.4 Digression: Network of Workstation and alternatives
• 1.5 What can I run on a Beowulf Cluster?
• 1.6 Growth of Beowulf Clusters
• 1.7 History of Building Beowulf Clusters

KUSU 102: Beowulf Cluster Patterns

• 2.1 Cluster Patterns
• 2.2 The Basic Cluster Pattern
• 2.3 The Standard Cluster Pattern
• 2.4 The Advanced Cluster Pattern
• 2.5 The Enterprise Cluster Pattern

KUSU 103: Beowulf Cluster Best Practices

• 3.1 Cluster Software
• 3.2 Cluster Hardware
• 3.3 Cluster Interconnects
• 3.4 Cluster Filesystems

I welcome comments and feedback to make the articles more relevant, up to date and accurate.

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Laurence Liew
HPCCommunity.org Manager