Dewey

Quad Core 2 running MPICH




Dewey isn't actually a Beowulf cluster, it's a single SMP system running an Intel 2.6 GHz Quad Core 2 CPU, with 4 GB of RAM and using MPICH for message-passing. MPICH was configured for shared-memory communications.

Parallel codes developed for running on Beowulf clusters can be run on Dewey for up to four processors. The main reason for doing this was benchmarking programs run on other clusters against a quad core system.

Some modified Pi benchmark results for Dewey:

[~/pi]$ mpirun -np 1 ./newflop 1000000000
pi is approximately 3.1415926535921401, Error is 0.0000000000023470
wall clock time = 13.939270
Estimated MFLOPs = 430.438609

[~/pi]$ mpirun -np 2 ./newflop 1000000000
pi is approximately 3.1415926535905170, Error is 0.0000000000007239
wall clock time = 6.985985
Estimated MFLOPs = 858.862447

[~/pi]$ mpirun -np 3 ./newflop 1000000000
pi is approximately 3.1415926535899761, Error is 0.0000000000001830
wall clock time = 4.662983
Estimated MFLOPs = 1286.729992

[~/pi]$ mpirun -np 4 ./newflop 1000000000
pi is approximately 3.1415926535896128, Error is 0.0000000000001803
wall clock time = 3.502833
Estimated MFLOPs = 1712.899182