The beowulf cluster is composed of 16 worker nodes and 1 frontend node running on Debian 5.0. MPICH-2 is the clustering package installed. The cluster will be used for modeling and simulation of natural phenomena such as flooding. Ganglia is installed for monitoring the cluster. The setup of the cluster is largely based from debianclusters. See some screenshots. Get started by reading the User Guide.

Available Software

General

Package	Version	Description
MPICH2	1.0.8p1	Message Passing Interface Implementation
GCC	4.3.2	GNU Compiler Collection
JDK	1.6.0_13	Java Development Kit
Torque		Task queue/resource manager
Maui		Task scheduler

Biology/Bioinformatics

Package	Version	Description
FASTA	35.4.7	A tool for sequence alignment (with MPI support)

Chemistry

Package	Version	Description
NAMD
VMD

Engineering

Package	Version	Description

Mathematics

Package	Version	Description
BLAS		Basic Linear Algerbra Subprograms
CBLAS		C interface to BLAS
LAPACK	3.2.1	Linear Algebra Package

Physics

Package	Version	Description

Statistics

Package	Version	Description
R		A language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.