Black Bear Linux Cluster User's Guide

Name	Processors	Nodes	MHz	Processor Type	Storage	Vendor	Network	Operating System
Blackbear	32	16	550	Intel Pentium III	144 GB	VA Linux Systems	Myrinet	Linux
Blackbear	Blackbear is for general use as a development and production parallel machine. It is a high bandwidth, low latency interconnect machine. It is very good with jobs that require a lot of message passing between the processors. Blackbear can be used for classes. "Embarrassingly parallel" appelettes that do not require a HBLL interconnect should use the Condor Job Submission Capability to submit jobs on the Turing Cluster or RCDE boxes.

Blackbear is a development machine purchased from VA Linux. It provides a high performance computing (HPC) linux cluster. The primary users of Blackbear are research assistants, HPC users in the UNM community.

Documentation- Users Guide
Compilers - NAG, VAST, GNU, PGI, C, C++, f77, f90, f95
MPI Library: MPICH
Numerical Libraries: BLAS, BLACS, ScaLAPACK, FFTw, PETSc
Schedulers - PBS
Applications: Cactus, GAMESS

About Black Bear

VA Linux & the AHPCC have teamed up. We are developing a Linux Cluster dedicated to computational research.

Black Bear was named in honor of Smokey the Bear, probably the most famous bear in the history of the United States. It was a New Mexico black bear cub found alive in a tree after a massive forest fire in the Lincoln National Forest near Capitan, NM. In 1950, the U.S. Forest Service and the Advertising Council utilized Smokey as the symbol for fire prevention campaigns conducted all over the country. Smokey received much notoriety, lived to a ripe old age, and was buried at Smokey Bear State Park in Capitan.

The Black Bear (Oso Negro) is common in wooded areas throughout New Mexico, and the bear's head has been the insignia of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. The Black Bear is a protected game animal and may only be hunted by license in the proper season.

State legislature made the Black Bear the official animal on February 8, 1963. For more information: http://www.state.nm.us/state/FastFacts