Distributed Simulation Cluster

These machines can be used for distributed simulation using tools such as MPI & PVM, individually to run MATLAB simulations, or using proprietory techniques to spawn processes on the various machines and collecting/collating processed data at a later stage.

Presentation Material

1. "Distributed Simulation in CUBINlab", presented at a CUBIN seminar on 22 January 2003.

Parallelising Jobs

Some rough scripts have been written to help you to run multiple simulations in parallel. Consult the preliminary documentation on spawning jobs.

Cluster Machines

The following table lists the details of each machine we currently have in the cluster.

You may see the status of each machine by selecting the appropriate image. Alternatively, you may see the status of the cluster as a whole.

faraday	Dell PowerEdge 850 Pentium D 3.0 GHz (2 cores) 4GB RAM X Server
newton	Dell PowerEdge 850 Pentium D 2.80 GHz (2 cores) 2.0 GB RAM X Server
turing	Dell GX 280 Pentium 4 3.2 GHz 512MB RAM
galileo	Dell Optiplex GX270 Pentium 4 2.8 GHz 512MB RAM
bell	Dell PowerEdge 600SC Pentium 4 2.4 GHz 1GB RAM
nyquist	Dell PowerEdge 600SC Pentium 4 2.4 GHz 512MB RAM
edison	Dell PowerEdge 600SC Pentium 4 2.4 GHz 2GB RAM
wiener	Dell PowerEdge 600SC Pentium 4 2.4 GHz 1GB RAM
marconi	Dell PowerEdge 600SC Pentium 4 2.4 GHz 1GB RAM
einstein	Dell Optiplex GX240 Pentium 4 1.9 GHz 768MB RAM
kepler	Dell Dimension 8100 Pentium 4 1.5 GHz 256MB RAM
shannon	Dell Dimension 8100 Pentium 4 1.5 GHz 256MB RAM