It s a database management system for the library. The system is in charge of both book information management and user information management. It supports real-time concurrent access. This system contains a server node and some client nodes. These nodes usually are personal computers running on Linux with network adaptor and connected through Ethernet.
Server is in charge of the entire system and connected to outside environment.
Bewulf is not a particular software package or new network architecture, but just a kind of connection of several computers. It uses message-passing to implement parallel processing. 1.1.2 is a kind of implementation of MPI 2.0. This project is about an 8-node Bewulf system s construction, performance test and the MPI environment on it. System is running on Redhat Linux 6.0.