Speedup of Particle Transport Problems with a Beowulf Cluster

Speedup of Particle Transport Problems with a Beowulf Cluster

The MCNP code is a general Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport program that is widely used in health physics, medical physics and nuclear engineering for problems involving neutron, photon and electron transport. However, due to the stochastic nature of the algorithms employed to solve the Boltzmann transport equation, MCNP generally exhibits a slow rate of convergence. In fact, engineers and scie...

Making A Beowulf Cluster

The Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) was established jointly by the Schools of Engineering and Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. SCOREC models real world physical reactions by simulating them on computers. The numerical solution of these models often requires discretizations with a number of unknowns approaching one billion. Problems of this scale can only be solved on...

Distributed Processing of High-speed Stereo Particle Image Velocimetry Data with a Low Power Beowulf Cluster

In this paper, we present our design of a portable cluster supercomputer created specifically for processing PIV image data. To make the system portable for a laboratory environment, the cluster computer is required to run on minimal power and be light weight. The final cluster design was based on the Intel R ©QuadCore Xeon R ©X3210 low-power processors. This hardware setup allows for a total s...

Creating a Raspberry Pi-Based Beowulf Cluster

Lattice QCD on a Beowulf Cluster

Even a modest lattice QCD project demands quite large amount of computing resources. In this regard, it has always been an attractive idea to build a cheap high performance computing platform out of commodity PC’s and commodity networking devices. However, the availability of cheap hardware components solved only a part of problem in building a parallel computer in the past. There were large hi...