Lattice QCD on a Beowulf Cluster

Abstract

Using commodity component personal computers based on Alpha processor and commodity network devices and a switch, we built an 8-node parallel computer. GNU/Linux is chosen as an operating system and message passing libraries such as PVM, LAM, and MPICH have been tested as a parallel programming environment. We discuss our lattice QCD project for a heavy quark system on this computer.

Comments: Lattice99 (algorithms and machines),3 pages, 3 figures, espcrc2.sty