Tag: Beowulf

Hacking the Pandemic: Global Research Community Gathers Online Against COVID-19

Long-time Slashdot reader DrYak writes: Over 500 scientists, software developers and clinicians joined forces in the COVID-19 virtual Biohackathon to develop new tools for working with the COVID-19 data. The outcomes of the event improved the accessibility of data, protocols, analysis pipelines and provided dedicated compute resources to execute demanding data analysis tasks. The COVID-19 Biohackathon was an online event from…

‘Pi VizuWall’ Is a Beowulf Cluster Built With Raspberry Pi’s

Why would someone build their own Beowulf cluster — a high-performance parallel computing prototype — using 12 Raspberry Pi boards? It’s using the standard Beowulf cluster architecture found in about 88% of the world’s largest parallel computing systems, with an MPI (Message Passing Interface) system that distributes the load over all the nodes. Matt Trask, a long-time computer engineer now completing…