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Fast Facts:

• IU was established in 1820.
• The average undergraduate class size is 34 students, and the student-to-faculty ratio is 20:1.
• IU's experience was recognized by Time magazine in 2002 and U. S. News & World Report in 2003 as among the best in the country.
• There are 277,000 IU Bloomington alumni living throughout the world.
• IU's campus was called one of America's five most beautiful in The Campus as a Work of Art, and USA Today called Bloomington one of the top 10 places for campus culture.

The Computer Science Department at Indiana University in Bloomington purchased a Beowulf cluster from Aspen Systems. The cluster is used by a diverse group of faculty members from the IU Computer Science Department; including people studying distributed processing, grid computing, AI, and software development.

One of the primary uses of the Aspen Systems Beowulf cluster is for the development of LAM/MPI. The group that develops and maintains LAM/MPI is at Indiana University and they are using the cluster heavily in their code development and testing. For additional information regarding this group at Indiana University, visit their web site at http://osl.iu.edu/.

Another group at Indiana University using the Aspen Systems Beowulf cluster is the Extreme lab. They are involved in a number of projects, including DOE-wide Common Component Architecture (CCA) Forum, which is rated #6 in the Top 10 DOE Science Achievements in 2002. The CCA Forum is developing component technology standards for high-performance scientific software. For more information and links related to CCA, review the Extreme web page at: http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/

Other projects using the Aspen Systems Beowulf cluster include dQUOB (dynamic QUery OBjects) and Relational Grid Resources (RGR). For additional information about these projects, visit the following web sites:

• http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~plale/projects/dQUOB/
• http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~plale/projects/RGR/