Related Sites

Related distributed cluster projects

• The NIST http://cmr.ncsl.nist.gov/scalable/scalable.html Scalable Computing Testbed project focuses on larger ATM-based networks.
• The http://www.extreme-linux.org Extreme Linux project is trying to improve and evolve Linux for high-performance computing.
• Beowulf systems use a channel-bonding technology to utilize multiple ethernet cards per node to increase network bandwidth.
• The http://lhpca.univ-lyon1.fr High Speed Networks and Parallel Applications Project has developed a communication interface (BIP) for Myrinet PC networks.
• Berkeley NOW project has been exploring larger (N>64) Unix clusters with high-speed networks.
• The Illinois http://www-csag.cs.uiuc.edu/projects/clusters.html HPVM project provides a low-latency messages, and an MPI port (MPI-FM) of fast messages.
• The http://rocs-PC.ca.sandia.gov/DAISy/DAISy.html DAISy project at Sandia also uses a similar fast-ethernet/Myrinet network configuration.
• Myricom keeps a list of http://www.myri.com/myrinet/customer_projects projects worldwide that use Myrinet networking technology.

Meetings and workshops

• http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/workshops Pentium Pro Cluster Workshop
• Cluster Computing Conference
• http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~beckman/extremelinux Extreme Linux Society meeting

Linux related links

• Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO
• MP and Clustering for Linux and Related Info
• Linux in High Performance Computing
• Multiprocessing kernel (SMP) Linux
• Red Hat Linux
• Linux Documentation Project
• Linux Software for Scientists
• Scientific Applications on Linux

Message passing and related software

• PVM
• XPVM
• MPICH
• LAM
• MPI Forum