Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute Cluster

by Robert G. Brown

This is a lulu-based print version of the famous (or infamous) book that has delighted generations of newbie cluster computer geeks for oh, six or seven years now. If are interested in cluster computing, but don't really know how it works or how to go about getting started, this is a good book for you. If you are an expert, you probably know a lot of it but still may find it funny and/or useful in places. Either way, it is available for free if you really can't afford to buy it, but by buying it you help me to write more and keep it up to date.

217 pages, Paperback

Published September 14, 2007

About the author

My real biography is way too long and complex for a few hundred words, so this is the reader's digest version. I've lived in Skaneateles, New York, New Delhi, India, West Springfield, Virginia, and for 34 years now in Durham, NC where I teach physics at Duke. I'm married (to Susan F. Isbey MD) and have three boys. We live with three dogs, one cat, and sundry transient animals of all classes.

In addition to doing physics, math, statistics, computing, predictive modelling, and geekstuff like that, I write. A lot. Daily.

I write magazine columns and articles, usually in the field of computing. I've written lots of "learned papers" in physics, mostly published in Physical Review. I've written two books of poetry (much of which has been published on the Internet since before the Web was born), two fictional novels (one of which, The Book of Lilith, has been published), and several topical texts in physics and computing. I'm currently working on more fiction and on what should be THE definitive work on axiomatic metaphysical philosophy.

My books can be found here:

http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcc...

The The Book of Lilith (ISBN: 978-1-4303-2245-0) can be found on Amazon or Barnes and Noble or other fine online booksellers. Some of them are also available for free via my personal website here:
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb.