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IWCC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A High Performance Communication Subsystem for PODOS
PODOS is a performance oriented distributed operating system being developed to harness the performance capabilities of a cluster computing environment. In order to address the gr...
Sudharshan Vazhkudai, P. Tobin Maginnis
IWCC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Nomad: A Scalable Operating System for Clusters of Uni and Multiprocessors
The recent improvements in workstation and interconnection network performance have popularized the clusters of off-the-shelf workstations. However, the usefulness of these cluste...
Eduardo Pinheiro, Ricardo Bianchini
IWCC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Comparative Performance of a Commodity Alpha Cluster Running Linux and Windows NT
Using a cluster of commodity Alpha processors we compare two software platforms based on Linux and Windows NT and intended to support intensive scientic computations. Networking a...
David Lancaster, Kenji Takeda
IWCC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Single I/O Space for Scalable Cluster Computing
In this paper, we propose a novel Single I/O Space architecture for achieving a Single System Image (SSI) at the I/O subsystem level. This is very much desired in a scalable clust...
Roy S. C. Ho, Hai Jin, Kai Hwang
IWCC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Optimizing User-Level Communication Patterns on the Fujitsu AP3000
In this paper, we present techniques and algorithms to improve the performance of various communication patterns on message-passing platforms where, for reasons of safety, user-le...
Jeremy E. Dawson, Peter E. Strazdins
IWCC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Design and Analysis of the Alliance/University of New Mexico Roadrunner Linux SMP SuperCluster
This paper will discuss high performance clustering from a series of critical topics: architectural design, system software infrastructure, and programming environment. This will ...
David A. Bader, Arthur B. Maccabe, Jason R. Mastal...