Apr. 17 : Meet Loki's big brother, Avalon

Loki is a Beowulf-class supercomputer built from commodity components.

  16  Pentium Pro Processors
x  5  Fast Ethernet interfaces
+  2  Gbytes RAM
+ 50  Gbytes Disk
+  2  Fast Ethernet switches
+     Linux
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= 1.2 real Gflops for $63,000

(but that is the 1996 price)

• What's Inside the Loki Cluster

• How does Loki perform?

• What does Loki look like? (JPEG,GIF)

• Helpful Documentation

• Links to Parallel Computing Resources

• Slides from the Ames Laboratory Pentium Pro Cluster Workshop

• Recent papers

• Performance Monitoring

• Recent calculations

• Web access statistics

• Account Application (Theoretical Division Users Only)

Nov. 20, 1997: Loki wins 1997 Gordon Bell Price/Performance Prize at SC '97! Details are available in our paper from the conference proceedings.

Nov. 28, 1997: Loki appears on the cover of the January 1998 edition of Linux Journal, which includes an article written by Jim Hill, Michael Warren and Patrick Goda.