The Sax Cluster

Health Status

• Cluster Monitor

Resource Owner

• Michael Mascagni
• Ashok Srinivasan

Hardware Configuration

• CPU: Dual AMD Opteron
  
• Mem: 2 GB

Operating System

• Rocks Version 4.1 / x86_64
• kernel-2.6.9-22

Software

• Grid Engine
  
• gcc
• LAM
• MPI
• Totalview

Primary Application

The Sax cluster was purchased through a DURIP grant from Army, entitled "A Laboratory for Distributed and Grid Computing". The cluster is used to develop Monte Carlo algorithms and software tools for distributed and grid-type computing environments. Monte Carlo is known for its high parallelization efficiency. The aim of this project, therefore, is to (i) develop effective Monte Carlo algorithms for a wider variety of problems, and (ii) to develop tools that enable easier use of Monte Carlo techniques on such environments.

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