Annapolis, MD (PRWEB) February 2, 2001
The Theoretical Biophysics Group at the University of Illinois (UIUC) has procured 36 AMD Athlon computers to build a Scyld Beowulf cluster high performance computer. The January 2001 release of Scyld Beowulf is currently running on the 18 nodes that have been delivered and installed to date.
The Theoretical Biophysics Group produces a parallel, object-oriented molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems called NAMD.
"Since Scyld Beowulf offers a standard MPI implementation, the port of NAMD was trivial", said Jim Phillips, researcher at UIUC. In addition, the University has ported Charm++, an object oriented portable parallel programming language based on C++, directly to the native low-level API of Scyld Beowulf, called BProc, increasing network
performance by 30%.
Scyld Computing Corporation has included the NAMD software in the January 2001 release of its Scyld Beowulf clustering operating system.
Scyld is filling the need for a standard, supported, high performance cluster operating system. The company has recently released its Scyld Beowulf cluster operating system which provides simplified cluster integration and setup, minimal administration, and seamless scalability. "The ease of setting up and administering the Scyld product gives me more time to concentrate on doing physics.", says Phillips.
Scyld Beowulf operating system's ease of installation, simple administration, increased processing capabilities and seamless scalability provides a high performance computing users an extremely powerful resource for advanced standardized application deployment.
About Scyld Computing Corporation
Scyld Computing Corporation is the leading developer of second generation Beowulf cluster operating systems. Donald Becker, CTO, and Scyld developers are known in the Linux community for their extensive contributions to the Linux kernel. Based in Annapolis, Maryland, Scyld is a privately held company. Further information may be obtained at http://www.scyld.com. Scyld Beowulf and Scyld Computing are registered trademarks of Scyld Computing Corporation.
About The Theoretical Biophysics Group at the University of Illinois
The Theoretical Biophysics Group (TBG) was founded by Professor Klaus Schulten in 1989 and is located at the Beckman Institute of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The group is led by Professor Klaus Schulten (Physics, Biophysics, Chemistry) with Professors Robert Skeel (Computer Science), Laxmikant Kale (Computer Science), and Todd Martinez (Chemistry).
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Scyld Computing Corporation
(410) 990-9993
quinn@scyld.com
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