How to Build a Linux Cluster for Scientific Computing

Abstract

A beowulf cluster is a cluster of Linux computers designed to run computing jobs in parallel. This article is going to give an up-to date example of assembled hardware, and installed programs (plus configuration). Finally there will be explanations of how to run processes in parallel in computing languages such as matlab and R. After the computers are setup we may want to transfer the configuration to other computers, a process which is called cloning. In the last section, we will deal with profiling.