Tese (Doutorado em Engenharia de Produção) - Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2006

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2000. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 62 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-62).

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / S tasks. Discrete Event Simulation (DES) often involves repeated, independent runs of the same models with different input parameters. A system which is able to run many replications quickly is more useful than one in which a single monolithic application runs quickly. A loosely coupled parallel system is indicated. Inexpensive commodity hardware, high speed local area networking, and open source software have created the potential to create just such loosely coupled parallel systems. These systems are constructed from Linux-based computers and are called Beowulf clusters. This thesis presents an analysis of clusters in high-performance computing and establishes a testbed implementation at the MOVES Institute. It describes the steps necessary to create a cluster, factors to consider in selecting hardware and software, and describes the process of creating applications that can run on the cluster. Monitoring the running cluster and system administration are also addressed. / Major, Hellenic Army

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. School of Technology, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-96).

Thesis (M.S.) -- Worcester Polytechnic Institute. / Keywords: beowulf; load sharing; load balancing; PANTS. Includes bibliographical references (p. 28 ).

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Don Brutzman, Don McGregor. Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-164). Also available online.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, 2003 / Inclui bibliografias / O objetivo desta dissertação de mestrado é estudar, propor e implementar uma ferramenta para gerência de clusters abertos. Esta dissertação de mestrado faz parte do projeto ParaPUC que está em desenvolvimento desde outubro de 1998 no programa de Pós-Gradu / The goal of this Master thesis is to study, to define and to implement a management tool for open clusters. This activity is being carried under the ParaPUC project of the Postgraduate Program in Applied Computer Science of the Pontifícia Universidade Cat

PANTS (PANTS Application Node Transparency System) is a suite of programs designed to add transparent load balancing to a Beowulf cluster so that processes are transfered among the nodes of the cluster to improve performance. PANTS provides the option of using one of several different load balancing policies, each having a different approach. This paper studies the scalability and performance of these policies on large clusters and under various workloads. We measure the performance of our policies on our current cluster, and use that performance data to build simulations to test the performance of the policies in larger clusters and under differing workloads. Two policies, one deterministic and one non-deterministic, are presented which offer optimal steady-state performance. We also present best practices and discuss the major challenges of load balancing policy design.

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This work describes the installation of a Beowulf cluster at the University of KwaZulu-Natal / Thesis (Ph.D.-Eng)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.