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• The Beowulf Project - History of Beowulf development, network drivers, software, documentation, papers, and links to other resources and cluster sites.

  The Beowulf Archives Mailing list for Beowulf discussion. http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/

  ClusterNFS Patches to NFS to permit diskless clients to mount a root filesystem. Source code and documentation. http://clusternfs.sourceforge.net/

  FAI Automated system for installing Debian on PC clusters. Documentation and source available. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/

  Flat Neighborhood Networks A network topology designed to minimize latency in clusters of PCs. http://aggregate.org/FNN/

  Linux Terminal Server Project Documentation and installation scripts to make a Linux cluster of thin clients in an educational environment. http://www.ltsp.org/

  OSCAR A bundle of software for making Linux clusters. Source code, hardware notes, and documentation. http://www.csm.ornl.gov/oscar/

  Parallel Processing Using Linux Discussion of Linux clusters, SMP, and links to Beowulf sites. http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~pplinux/

  Project AppleSeed How to make a cluster from Apple computers. Papers, benchmarks, and software for distributing jobs across a cluster. http://exodus.physics.ucla.edu/appleseed/appleseed.html

  Scalable Cluster Environment A set of interoperable opensource tools that enable users to build and use Beowulf cluster effectively to solve their problems. It consist of a cluster builder tool, complex system management tool (SCMS), scalable real-time monitoring, Web base monitoring software (KCAP), parallel Unix command, and batch scheduler. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sce/

  Scyld ClusterWare A Linux distribution with modifications for clustering. Product information and vendor list. http://www.penguincomputing.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=309&Itemid=452&vid=scyldcom

  Sequence Analysis on a 216-Processor Beowulf Cluster Paper about constructing a Beowulf for bioinformatics research. [PDF] http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/als00/2000papers/papers/full_papers/michalickova/michalickova.pdf