Dr. Matthias Gobbert, Associate Professor of Mathematics in the<DIV>
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	<DIV>Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of</DIV>
<DIV>Maryland, Baltimore County will be visiting us on Friday, December 3,</DIV>
<DIV>2004. He will be presenting a seminar in Coover 1219 on parallel</DIV>
<DIV>computing from 10-11 am on that date. I think it may be pertinent to</DIV>
<DIV>mention that the Department of Mathematics and Statistics did get a</DIV>
<DIV>SCREMS award for this computing setup in the year 2002. (Our</DIV>
<DIV>department won a similar SCREMS award this past year.) I expect him 
to</DIV>
<DIV>talk to us about those experiences here. The title and abstract 
follow.</DIV><BR>
<DIV>If you are interested in talking to him individually, please let me</DIV>
	<DIV>know. </DIV>
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	<DIV>Thanks and best wishes,</DIV>
<DIV>Ranjan</DIV><BR><BR>
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		<b>Title:&nbsp;</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b><font color="#000099"> Configuration and Performance of a Beowulf Cluster with</font></b></DIV>
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		<b><font color="#000099">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    High-Performance Interconnect</font></b> <br>
		<b>Speaker:&nbsp;&nbsp;</b> <font color="#990000"><b>Matthias Gobbert</b></font><br>
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		&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Department of Mathematics and Statistics<br>
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		<b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; University of Maryland, Baltimore Count</b>y<br>
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		<b>Date:&nbsp;&nbsp;</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#000099"><b> Friday</b></font>, <b>December 3, 200</b>4<br>
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		<b>Time:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</b>&nbsp;&nbsp; <b><font color="#000099">10 am</font></b><br>
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		<b>Location:&nbsp;</b> <font color="#000099"><b>1219 Coover</b></font><br>
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<DIV>Abstract: The cost-effectiveness of building Beowulf clusters using</DIV>
<DIV>commodity components and connecting them via dedicated networks has</DIV>
<DIV>made them the most popular type of parallel computers at present. By</DIV>
<DIV>using high-performance networks such as Myrinet interconnects, these</DIV>
<DIV>Beowulf clusters have recently achieved a performance that makes them</DIV>
<DIV>competetive with classical parallel computers. Using a 64-processor</DIV>
<DIV>cluster in my department as example, I will introduce the 
architecture</DIV>
<DIV>of Beowulf clusters, discuss performance measures, and show several</DIV>
<DIV>application examples of large-scale scientific computing problems from the 
area of numerical methods for partial differential equations.</DIV><BR></DIV>