About the CPR Beowulf Cluster
The CPR cluster is a 37 dual-processor node Beowulf Class cluster computer. Each node has two hyper-threaded 3.06GHZ Xeon processors yielding a total of 148 available processors (72 physical, 72 virtual). Each node is configured with 2 GB of memory and 60 GB of hard disk space in a RAID 0 configuration.
The Beowulf cluster is intended for research only. Accounts are available to both faculty and students (with faculty sponsor) within the Center for Policy Research.
Note that development of software is not done on the cluster. The cluster is for 'production' code only. However, software necessary for the development of code that utilizes multiple processors is available for all desktop platforms (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, Solaris etc.). In particular, we will aid in the installation of the necessary programs for code development on your desktop machine and direct you to the necessary resources. Once you have your code up and running you can then migrate to the cluster itself. Parallel code can be run and debugged on uni-processor machines using the development software.
