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Sites submitted to this category should contain substantial information specific to beowulfs. If your site is generally about parallel programming or other types of parallel computers, please submit it to the main Parallel Computing category.The word 'beowulf' refers to a class of parallel computers. A Beowulf-class computer is a cluster computer composed of bare-bones computers (generally cheap ones, containing only a processor, memory, and a network card) connected with fast networking. Special system software allows all the individual computers in the cluster to work together efficiently. Beowulfs were developed as a cheap alternative to buying a monolithic supercomputer, and can be put together from generally accessible parts. This category is for homepages of parallel computing conferences.
This category contains technical information about parallel computing. Information about how to write programs for parallel computers is in Parallel_Computing/Programming/Documentation.
Documentation about specific parallel programs can be found (if it exists) in the category listing that program. Documentation about writing parallel programs in specific languages is under Computers/Parallel_Computing/Programming/Languages.This category contains sites related to parallel programming. This includes parallel compilers, message-passing libraries, parallel programming tools, and documentation. Submissions to this category should be home pages of individual projects involving parallel programming research.A parallel computing project may be any research endeavor related to some aspect of parallel programming. Research that uses parallel computers to accomplish its goals (that is, research in another scientific field that involves running simulations or using visualization software) is found elsewhere in the directory (somewhere in Science hierarchy, in the specific category that seems most related to the subject of the research). Many of these projects are new and interesting ways of making parallel computers; others relate to parallel algorithms. Many institutes have lots of research projects. Listings of research institutes that have a significant computer science bent (many of which have divisions that do scalable programming research) are in Computers/Computer_Science/Research_Institutes.
This category contains vendors of parallel computing hardware and software. Vendors that specialize in Beowulf clusters are listed in the Computers/Parallel_Computing/Beowulf/Vendors category.
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