[Beowulf] massive parallel processing application required

lenoxx at tempemusic.com lenoxx at tempemusic.com
Wed Jan 31 11:08:17 PST 2007


You can try:
CMAQ
www.cmascenter.org
MM5
http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/
WRF
http://www.wrf-model.org/index.php


Any of the above could be used and input data can be gathered from many 
sources. If you want some WRF inputs, let me know. I don't currently 
have any CMAQ or MM5 inputs though.










Mitchell Wisidagamage wrote:

> Thank you for the reply. what I mean by massively parallel processing 
> is "compute intensive" problem where I will be able to process on many 
> hosts independently in parallel (by parallelizing the algorithms). 
> Apologies if I'm repeating what you already know. Currently there are 
> 9 hosts on Beowulf cluster in Lab running on UltraSPARC 5 (yes, very 
> old machines!).
>
> "raw data" I'm looking for are the input files required for the 
> application, so I can "process" them. I do not have any specific 
> application in mind. I will be developing the different components of 
> the application such as job scheduling, fault tolerance, fault 
> recovery, etc for my dissertation. I will be useing PVM or MPI for 
> message passing and programming in c.
>
> But I do have any specific application in mind and I don't mind any 
> application. I can come up with say, "data mining" but it's pointless 
> unless I have the "raw data" files to process and know the patterns 
> I'm looking for.
>
> Application design and programming model all depends on the type of 
> application I get my hands on. I'm quite desperate for a "problem" 
> since I have to submit my proposal end of next week. Any help would he 
> greatly appreciated. I'm sure everyone here has lot of experience in 
> distributed processing and hopefully can be of some help. Sorry for 
> the long post.
>
>
> Thanks,
>  Mitchell
>
>
> Douglas Eadline wrote:
>
>> You may want to quantify "massively parallel"
>> and define "raw data" (i.e. how many
>> processors and data for which specific application?)
>>
>>
>>   --
>>   Doug
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>   As part of my dissertation, I'm looking for "raw data" which will be
>>> used for massive parallel processing using Beuwulf cluster (with the 
>>> use
>>> of PVM or MPI). I tried looking for e-science raw data (and the
>>> computations required on it) such as bioinformatics, fluid dynamics,
>>> etc. but without any luck.
>>>
>>> Anyone has any idea of getting some raw data so I can give compute
>>> intensive "work" to the nodes?
>>>
>>> Any pointers/hints/tips would be very much appriciated.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>   Mitchell
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> -- 
>> Doug
>
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