About Beocat
Beocat is a medium-sized compute cluster in the CIS Department of the College of Engineering at Kansas State University. The project is overseen by Dr. Andresen and managed by Adam Tygart. All systems are running Gentoo Linux with a 2.6 kernel. They use PXE to boot and mount an nfs share as the root partition. They have a local disk for swap space and some temporary storage.
We currently have 122 nodes totaling 1000 processors and 1.6TB of ram. Check /SystemsList for more detailed information on the hardware. Benchmarking numbers to come soon.
You can observe the load and status of the cluster at http://beocat.cis.ksu.edu.
Beocat currently has the following software packages / libraries installed:
Many different groups use Beocat for their work. For details, check out /CurrentProjects.
Pictures have been taken of the recent reorganization: /ServerRoomPictures.
Information on power consumption can be found here: /PowerUtilization.
Documentation
Here we hope to be able to answer most of the questions you may have about Beocat. We strongly suggest you bookmark this page and check it regularly for updates.
UPDATE: The rollout of the new scheduling system (Sun Grid Engine) is planned for May 16-17 of 2009. This is a major change, please read the documentation from the link below.
Contact and Support Information
If you have a problem, please send an email to beocat@cis.ksu.edu . This will put a service request in the queue so we can track and remedy your problem. Please keep the subject line as descriptive as possible and include any pertinent details to your problem (i.e. job ids, commands run, working directory, program versions,.. etc).