bandwidth, 7
backplane, 80
bisection, 89
bandwidth-delay product, 126
barnraising, 550
Basic Linear Algebra Communication Subprograms, 336
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms, 336
batch job, 374
batch scheduling, 447
Becker, Donald, 49
Benchmarks
Beowulf Performance Suite, 14
bonnie++, 14
halo communication, 274
HPL, 275
I/O, 14
LMbench, 14
memory system, 14
mpptest, 274
NAS parallel benchmarks, 14
netperf , 14
netpipe , 14
ping pong test, 274
SKaMPI, 275
STREAM, 14
Unix, 14
BeoMPI Web site, 243
beoserv , 475
Beowulf Performance Suite, 14
Beowulf-class system, 583
Berkeley Unix, 41
Big Brother, 362
bind , 182
bioinformatics, 195
BIOS, 30
LinuxBIOS, 31
bisection bandwidth, 89
bisection bandwidth, 82
bit, 583
block devices, 498
blue screen of death, 44
BlueGene/L, 581
bonnie++, 14
Boot
network, 56
Boot time kernel messages, 360
bproc, 471
bps, 583
Bratu problem, 234
broadcast, 228
root, 228
byte, 583