Climate Ocean Modeling on a Beowulf Class System
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With the growing power and shrinking cost of personal computers, the availability of fast ethernet interconnections, and public domain software packages, it is now possible to combine them to build desktop parallel computers (named Beowulf or PC clusters) at a fraction of what it would cost to buy systems of comparable power from supercomputer companies. This led us to build and assemble our own system, specifically for climate ocean modeling. In this article, we present our experience with such a system, discuss its network performance, and provide some performance comparison data with both R P SPP2000 and Cray T3E for an ocean model used in present-day oceanographic research.
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