Beowulf Resources and Links

This is the official home page for the Duke University Physics Department's Brahma Beowulf Project. Please feel free to explore this website. There are a number of things on the site itself that may be of use or interest to individuals interested in beowulf-style cluster computing.

This site is maintained by rgb. It and all works linked thereupon authored by Robert G. Brown are Copyright 2003 (or as indicated in the document) and made available through a modified Open Publication License unless superceded by another license directly associated with the document. (Current site version 2.2-1)

rshbench is a really trivial program written by Robert G. Brown designed to benchmark remote shells. The idea was to determine how much of a "penalty" was associated with using e.g. ssh as a secure and feature-rich remote shell versus the older, insecure, and feature poor rsh. It is preserved here because there is a small chance that this might once again be useful to somebody. I personally think that using ssh is a no-brain decision, though, for nearly everybody.

Current Snapshots

• rshbench tarball (tgz)
• rshbench i386 RPM
• rshbench src RPM