[CLUE-Admin] Re: CLUE North Meeting - 9/17/03 (Beowulf Cluster @ CU Denver)

[Jan Mandel]

The slides of our talk are now available on my presentations page
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jmandel/slides/


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, CLUE President wrote:

> Topic:  Beowulf Cluster @ CU Denver (abstract below).
>
> Date:  9/17/03
> Time:  7:00 pm
> Location:  Regis University Adult Education Center
>   + http://cluedenver.org/north/ for additional details.
>
> This should be an intersting topic.  CLUE has been interested in Beowulf
> clusters for some time.
> Jeff
>
> --
> Colorado Linux Users and Enthusiasts (CLUE)
> http://cluedenver.org/
> Jeffery Cann, President
>
>
> -------- Session Abstract -----------
>
> The Beowulf Cluster at the University of Colorado at Denver
>
> Jan Mandel and Russ Boice
> Center for Computational Mathematics
> University of Colorado at Denver
>
> This talk will give an overview of the cluster, namely
> - the hardware and software configuration
> - what the choices were and why we ordered what we did
> - what burned and why we did not make Top 500
> - what eventually worked and how long it took
> - what software projects we have
> - what we would do the next time
>
> The home page of the cluster is
>   + http://www-math.cudenver.edu/ccm/beowulf/
>
> Jan Mandel got his PhD in Numerical Mathematics in 1983 from the Charles
> University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, and has been a Professor of Mathematics
> at the University of Colorado at Denver since 1986. He has been the Director
> of the Center for Computational Mathematics since 2001.
>
> He is an author or editor of six books and over sixty research papers.  His
> work has received over six hundred citations in scientific literature.  His
> main research area is iterative methods for large systems of linear algebraic
> equations and partial differential equations. His code was used in the design
> of the Swedish Grippen jet fighter, and another code he co-wrote is part of
> ANSYS, a major engineering simulation software.
>
> His curent work is on real-time simulation and prediction of nonlinear systems
> with uncertainty, in particular forest fires. Jan Mandel has started his
> computing career with a Russian Minsk-32 and real Teletypes, then progressed
> to IBM/360. He still has some old IBM/AIX and SUNs in dark corners and uses
> FORTRAN and C at times, but now he does most of his coding in Matlab.  He has
> been responsible for departmental computing since 1988 or so. In 2001, he has
> configured a Beowulf cluster, and is now supervising its system
> administration. He does not mind getting his hands dirty when the time allows
> but draws the line at recompiling Linux kernels, especially late at night.
>
> Russ Boice Earned BSEET and MSSE degrees while working as an Electronics
> Specialist at Colorado State University - Pueblo. He enjoys figuring out how
> all kinds of things work and has been fortunate enough to be employed where
> he has had a chance to pursue this. He has followed the advancements in
> Computer technology from it's inception. This starting with teletype
> machines, through coding in Z80 assembler and currently working with a bunch
> of servers for the math department at the University of Colorado, Denver. He
> would like to get to the bottom of questions in cosmology.  One of his pet
> peeve is why cosmologists continue to talk about black holes forming, while
> knowing this cannot happen.
>
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