Beowulf Resources (with abstracts)

This page is devoted to beowulfery and cluster computing. There in an online book on cluster engineering, talks and tutorials, and software packages. You can either click directly to a resource page on the navigation bar above or browse the list below, where each link is accompanied by a short abstract.

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Charles L. Hedrick's Introduction to the Administration of an Internet Based Local Network (Copyright 1988 Charles L. Hedrick, see link for original copyright notice).

Truly a classic, this work (and it's companion, next) were my original "online guides" in TCP/IP networking (and networking in general). You'd think they'd be dated, sixteen years later, but of course TCP/IP itself hasn't changed, ethernet hasn't fundamentally changed -- amazingly, these are still some of the best simple introductions available anywhere on or off the net. Thank you, Charles L. Hedrick, whereever you might be!



Charles L. Hedrick's Introduction to the Internet Protocols (Copyright 1987 Charles L. Hedrick, see link for original copyright notice).

The companion work to the local area networking guide above, this work is just incredible. In addition to beautiful and tediously typed tty renditions of TCP, IP and ethernet packets showing most of the relevant details of their headers, this work reviews ports, RFC's, and more.