Wolfpack_cluster

Wolfpack; Computational Resource for
Traffic and Dependability Evaluation

"Wolfpack" consist of a cluster of a dozen powerful processors, configured with suitable software tools dedicated for demanding simulations and analysis tasks.

What is it for? Formalities The computing cluster Mosix User Guides and Programming Tools

What is it for?

Evaluation of traffic handling capabilities and dependability of communication networks and service providing systems. E.g.:

Development and execution of simulation experiments.
Number crunching of analytical/numerical models.
Measurements on "software systems".
Postprocessing of measurement results.
Result presentations and visualizations.

Other relevant use of the cluster are of course not excluded. The cluster is dedicated for:

Research, PhD studies included.
MSc thesis work on special occasions.

Formalities

The cluster is operated be the Department of Telematics O&M staff. For technical questions, contact them. How to get access:

PhD students, faculty, etc.: Contact O&M
MSc students: The responsible faculty for the thesis must contact the co-ordinator to see if there is available capacity before access is granted. The need of the student must be explicitly stated.

All extensive use of the cluster must be reported to the co-ordinator beforhand. He will see to that periods of heavy usage in several project do not (accidentally) coincide. Reported and granted use will have priority in a FCFS basis.

Prime contact at O&M: Engineer Asbjørn Karstensen
Co-ordinator: Postdoc. Otto Wittner/Q2S
Responsible faculty: Professor Bjarne E. Helvik.

The computing cluster

Platform

12 Pentium4 2.4Ghz; 3Gb memory each [An upgrade is under consideration (2005-10-10). A candidate are set-up are 10 new servers based on 64-bit Intel Xeon dual processors (3.x Ghz).]
Gentoo linux
An OpenMosix cluster. Look also here Mosix cluster. More info below.

Application software

Tools:

Simula (CIM) / DEMOS
ns2 [See here for an introduction]
Möbius
Mathematica

Result handling, presentation and visualization:

gnuplot
gimp
gv, ghostscript
xfig
lyx
perl <<????>>
TKL/Tcl <<???>>

Auxillary:

ant
jikes
emacs
xemacs

Mosix User Guides and Programming Tools

Mosix FAQ
Mosix Tutorial (locally cashed: Mosix Tutorial)
openMosix How To

Some Programming Tools

C sources for location of processes in a Mosix cluster (locally cashed: C sources)
Qps - Visual Process Manager (locally cashed web page: Qps)
C sources for Kandel - an arbitrary precision arbitrary resolution Mandelbrot set generator for KDE.

Last updated 2005-10-12

Administrative contact: randi(åt)item.ntnu.no, Technical contact: drift(åt)item.ntnu.no, Last updated: 13 Oct 2005
Contact for studies: studieveileder(åt)item.ntnu.no

Wolfpack; Computational Resource for Traffic and Dependability Evaluation