Apple Canada Video

"Plug-and-Play" Parallel Computing: Build Your Own Parallel Computing Cluster in Under an Hour Dr. Dean E. Dauger Dauger Research, Inc. Dr. Viktor K. Decyk UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy

• Introduction (1:05, 822 kB) - introduction of the presentation, the authors, and background of the work

• Why Parallel? (1:43, 1.1 MB) - what was the motivation for parallel computing, MPI, and clusters

• Why Macs? (3:20, 2.3 MB) - why we use Macintosh for clustering

• The Mac Cluster Recipe (1:47, 1.4 MB) - the recipe for building your own easy-to-use, supercomputer-compatible Mac cluster

• Demonstration: Part 1 (2:31, 1.8 MB) - beginning the live demonstration

• Demonstration: Part 2 (3:44, 3.1 MB) - showing how to install and operate Pooch and the Mac cluster

• Demonstration: Part 3 (1:54, 2.5 MB) - launching the parallel job on the Mac cluster

• Demonstration: Part 4 (3:22, 3.5 MB) - extending the reach of the Mac cluster thousands of miles

• Demonstration: Part 5 (1:10, 1.6 MB) - plasma physics simulation and visualization

• Pooch's Four User Interfaces (3:22, 3.8 MB) - a demonstration of how Pooch supports four distinct user interfaces

Please note that the video is in QuickTime MPEG-4 format, so we recommend that you have QuickTime 6 or later from Apple.

Background of the Presentation

Apple Canada generously invited and hosted Dr. Dean Dauger of Dauger Research to give a series of presentations across Canada. This tour had him and his Apple Canada colleagues present at universities in the vicinities of Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal:

University of British Columbia Simon Fraiser University York University University of Waterloo University of Toronto Université de Montréal Université du Québec à Montréal

Dr. Dauger was very proud to present at these notable educational institutions. Live demonstrations of parallel computing were made, including linking machines in Canada with those back at UCLA, and every demonstration was successful. (Even the snow couldn't hold them back.) Each presentation generated a great deal of discussion and excitement about the present and future of the technology.

At Apple Canada's headquarters in Toronto, we also shot video of the presentations. We were able to make excerpts of the presentation available from this page.

We also provide a QuickTime movie of the slides for this presentation (10.6 MB) so you may follow along with the video. Note that the video above contains only a portion of what was presented. Much time was spent discussing a variety of physics and other scientific calculations we accomplished using Mac clusters.

Apple Canada arranged to shoot this video live (in one take!) on location in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on March 6, 2002, and furnished Dauger Research with the material with the intention of posting it here. We thank Donna Church, Bruce Hough, Steve Hayman, Christianne Banfield, Pierre Moisan, and others of Apple Canada for their generous cooperation and support. Edited using iMovie.