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 Aaron Tygart. All systems are running Gentoo Linux with a 2.6 kernel. They are diskless, using PXE to boot and mount an nfs share as the root partition.

We currently have 35 nodes totalling 210 processors and 600GB 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:

• OpenMPI v1.1.2

• Scilab v4.0

• R v2.2.1

• Java v1.5

Many different groups use Beocat for their work. For details, check out /CurrentProjects.

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.

• /GettingStarted

• /FrequentlyAskedQuestions

• /SystemsList

• /Policy

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).