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IntroMonolith is a beowulf-class parallel computer in the Washington University Physics Department. It runs the Linux operating system (Scyld Beowulf Professional Distribution). Monolith was created by student members of the Gamma-ray Group and the High Energy Theory group . The hardware was selected, purchased, and assembled by Richard Bose , who was an undergraduate physics major and is now a consultant.Monolith was created to provide physics students a platform for running fast numerical computations and simulations without the need for buying time on a supercomputer. Current Hardware
Current SoftwareMonolith runs Scyld Linux Professional, which is based on Red Hat linux. It therefore contains all of the standard Red Hat programs and development utilities. MPI (Message Passing Interface) is used for parallel computing. There is no support planned for PVM, since MPI contains all the functionality of PVM and is better supported by the Scyld distribution.Monolith is a completely Microsoft-free machine. Cost
PerformanceTests show that Monolith's performance is on-par with a 64-processor $500,000 Origin 2000 in both well parallelized code and code that demands much intercommunication.AdministratorsFor account information or problems, please contact:
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