Helios:Mission

Mission of the Beowulf Cluster
The mission of the  Cluster is to support and promote undergraduate research at St. Olaf College through high-performance computing, primarily in the following disciplinary settings:


 * disciplinary research in Computer Science (CS); and
 * interdisciplinary research involving CS and one or more other fields.

The  Beowulf cluster project particularly encourages interdisciplinary undergraduate research broadly related to the health sciences, since major funding for   was provided through a grant for such activities from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).