I hear KLAT2 is up for a Gordon Bell award… whats that about?
Yup. Although KLAT2 can run many codes well, we plan to create a series of customized cluster designs and software for a variety of specific applications in science and engineering — PeTS (Personalized Turnkey Superclusters). For various reasons, CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) will be the first PeTS target, and we have used KLAT2 for prototyping that system. Although CFD is not an easy application for a cluster, KLAT2’s performance is good enough that it is currently a finalist for a Gordon Bell Price/Performance award. The paper describing what we did is: Thomas Hauser, Timothy I. Mattox, Raymond P. LeBeau, Henry G. Dietz and P. George Huang, “High-Cost CFD on a Low-Cost Cluster,” Gordon Bell Price/Performance Finalist and regular paper in SC2000, Dallas, Texas, USA, November 4-10, 2000. Preprints are available as 13MB PS and 31MB PDF versions for personal use only. (There also is a 4MB PDF version that some PDF viewers don’t like.
Yup. Although KLAT2 can run many codes well, we plan to create a series of customized cluster designs and software for a variety of specific applications in science and engineering — PeTS (Personalized Turnkey Superclusters). For various reasons, CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) will be the first PeTS target, and we have used KLAT2 for prototyping that system. Although CFD is not an easy application for a cluster, KLAT2’s performance is good enough that it is currently a finalist for a Gordon Bell Price/Performance award. The paper describing what we did is: Thomas Hauser, Timothy I. Mattox, Raymond P. LeBeau, Henry G. Dietz and P. George Huang, “High-Cost CFD on a Low-Cost Cluster,” Gordon Bell Price/Performance Finalist and regular paper in SC2000, Dallas, Texas, USA, November 4-10, 2000. Preprints are available as 13MB PS and 31MB PDF versions for personal use only.
