Web3. Systems Architecture

3.1. Symmetric Multiprocessor (SMP)

Intels Multiprocessor Specification (http://www.intel.com/IAL/processr/mpovr.html)

Digital AlphaServer Family (http://www.digital.com/alphaserver/)

Digital Technical Journal (http://www.digital.com/info/DTJ/) has .ps and .txt papers

HP Enterprise Server page (http://www.hp.com/gsy/products.html)

Integrated Computing Engines, Inc. (http://www.iced.com/) maker of the Desktop RealTime Engine

IBM Server page (http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/hardware/#eservers)

SGI Power Challenge white paper (ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/whitepaper/challenge_paper.ps.Z)

SGI Tech Center (http://www.sgi.com/Technology/tech_center.html)

Sun SMP Architectures (http://www.sun.com/smi/ssoftpress/books/Catanzaro/Catanzaro.html)

Sun Server page (http://www.sun.com/servers/)

The Cray Research system page (http://www.cray.com/products/systems/)

3.2. NUMA Systems

CC-NUMA Systems

HP/Convex Exemplar Servers (http://www.hp.com/wsg/products/servers/servhome.html)

Data Generals Numaliine servers (http://www.dg.com/numaliine/)

Sequent NUMA-Q (http://www.sequent.com/numaq/technology/)

SGI/Cray Origin 2000 (http://www.sgi.com/Products/hardware/servers/index.html)

NCC-NUMA System Cray T3E (http://www.cray.com/products/systems/crayt3e/) 3.3. Clustering Technology

Checkpoint, Recovery, Process Migration

Kai Li (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~li/)

Sun Xian-He (SNOW and SCALA Projects)(http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~scs/)

Rob Netzer (http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/rn/home.html)

James S. Plank (libckpt, etc.) (http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank)

The Warp system (http://warp.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/warp/systems/checkpoint/)

The MIST PVM checkpointer (http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/mist/)

Consistent Checkpoints (CoCheck)
(http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~stellner/CoCheck.html)

Condor (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/)

Checkpointing and recovery references (http://alphamor.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de/PARALLEL/cpft/)

Manetho (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mootaz/ftp/html/manetho.html), has a 1996 survey on rollback recovery

OSF ftp site (file://riftp.osf.org/pub/) has papers on ANDF, task migration, real time, and threads, including migrating and distributed threads, and source codes

OSF Mobile Objects and Agents (MOA) Project (http://www.osf.org/RI/java/moa/)

Survey of Checkpointing and Rollback Techniques
(ftp://ftp.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/ACCA/FTMPS/REPORTS/f93-04.ps.Z)

Overview of Checkpoint (http://warp.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/warp/systems/checkpoint/)

OGI MIST Project (http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/mist/)

Single System Image and Metacomputing The AppLes project (http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/groups/hpcl/apples/apples.html)

Berkeley WebOS (http://now.CS.Berkeley.EDU/WebOS/)

Broadway (http://www.camb.opengroup.org/tech/desktop/x/)

The GLOBE Project (http://www.cs.vu.nl/~steen/globe/)

The Globus project (http://www.globus.org/)

GLUnix (http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Glunix/glunix.html)

GOST: Global Operating System Technologies (http://gost.isi.edu/gost-group/projects/gost/)

The Legion Project (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~legion/)

The NetSolve Project (http://www.cs.utk.edu/~casanova/NetSolve/)

Solaris MC (http://www.sun.com/960201/cover/solaris-mc.html)

Another Solaris MC Page (Research at Sunlabs) (http://www.sunlabs.com/research/solaris-mc/)

File Systems IBM SPs GPFS (http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/software/sp_products/gpfs.html) and PIOFS
(http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/software/sp_products/piofs.html)

The HA-NFS project (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mootaz/ftp/html/hanfs.html)

The Alex FTP Filesystem (http://www.ludd.luth.se/~kavli/alex.html)

The Berkeley xFS (http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Xfs/xfs.html)

The Bayou Project (http://www.parc.xerox.com/csl/projects/bayou/)

CIFS (Common Internet File System) (http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/cifs/)

The Coda project (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/coda/Web/coda.html)

The File Mobility Group (http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/)

VERITAS (http://www.veritas.com/)

WebNFS (http://www.sun.com/webnfs/index.html)

Workload Management (Load sharing, load balancing, batching, scheduling) NHSE Review: Cluster Management Software (http://www.crpc.rice.edu/NHSEreview/CMS/), an HTML article by Baker, Fox and Yau, reviews 20 job management software packages

The AppLes project (http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/groups/hpcl/apples/apples.html)

Prospero Resource Manager (PRM) (http://nii-server.isi.edu/gost-group/products/prm/) at USC ISI

DQS (http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~pasko/dqs.html) or (file://ftp.scri.fsu.edu/pub/dqs) Distributed Queueing System, Florida State University

NQS (file://minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de/pub/batch/nqs/) NQS mirror at CERN
(ftp://shift.cern.ch/pub/NQS/)

GENIAS Softwares CODINE (http://www.genias.de/genias_welcome.html)

CONDOR (file://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/)

DJM (http://s1.arc.umn.edu/html/cm-software/djm.html), Distributed Job Manager at Minnesota.

IBM LoadLeveler (http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/software/sp_products/loadlev.html)

Platform Computing Load Sharing Facility (LSF) suite (http://www.platform.com/Products/)

Oregon Resource Management group
(http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/Distributed Computing/), software tools for allocation, mapping, placement, scheduling and migration, and fault tolerance in heterogeneous environments.

NASA Langley Research Center
(file://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/pub/techreports/larc/94/tm109\025.ps.Z)

OSF Mobile Objects and Agents (MOA) Project (http://www.osf.org/RI/java/moa/)

Scheduling, batch processing, load balancing (http://www.epm.ornl.gov/~zhou/lds/lds.html)
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

3.4. Cluster Computer Systems Academic Research Clusters Cluster Computing Conference - CCC '97 online proceedings
(http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~ccc97/sessions.html)

Beowulf clusters based on commodity PC-class hardware and the Linux OS. The Stone SouperComputer page (http://www.esd.ornl.gov/facilities/beowulf/)

The Berkeley NOW project (http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/)

The PeralCluster for distributed multimedia and Internet applications at Univ. of Hong Kong
(http://www.cs.hku.hk/~jmma/mmcentre/background/index.html)

Buffalo Cluster-based Computing via ATM (http://piranha.eng.buffalo.edu/)

National Scalable Cluster Project (NSCP) (http://www_lac.eecs.uic.edu/NSCP2.html)

Toronto Cluster computing (http://www.utirc.utoronto.ca/HPC/cluster.html)

Commercial Clusters Bull offers Escala Powercluster and High-Availability Solutions (HAS)
(http://www-frec.bull.fr/OSBU/hacmp_eg.htm) based on PowerPC nodes and AIX/OS.

DEC offers clusters on three platforms

Digital Open VMS Clusters (http://www.openvms.digital.com/openvms/products/clusters/)

Digital UNIX clusters (TruClusters) (http://www.unix.digital.com/cluster/)

Digital Clusters for Windows NT (http://www.windowsnt.digital.com/clusters/)

HP offers MC/ServiceGuard (http://hpcc920.external.hp.com/gsy/high_availability/) High-Availability Cluster, including ClusterView and Lock Manager

Enterprise Parallel Server (http://www.hp.com/gsy/products/eps_brief.html)

IBM offers clusters for Unix and mainframe platforms S/390 Parallel Sysplex cluster (http://www.s390.ibm.com/products/pso/psohp.html)

S/390 Sysplex (http://www.almaden.ibm.com/journal/sj36-2.html) in IBM Systems Journal.

IBM SP (http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/hardware/largescale/) (formerly known as SP1 and SP2), RS6000/AIX clusters

SP2 user group home page at Cornell University
(http://spud-web.tc.cornell.edu/HyperNews/get/SPUserGroup.html)

SP2 at MHPCC (http://www.mhpcc.edu/doc/SP2.general/SP2.general.html)

SP2 Special Issue in IBM Systems Journal, 1995
(http://www.almaden.ibm.com/journal/sj34-2.html)

HACMP (http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/software/Apps/hacmp/) (High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing), high availability cluster software for AIX Version 4

IBM SP system and RS/6000 web site (http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/) and AIX Redbooks
(http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/resource/aix_resource/Pubs/redbooks/)
(http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooksonline.html).

The IBM Scalable Parallel Systems group
(http://www.research.ibm.com/parallel_systems/)

Microsoft develops clusters software and systems on NT platforms The Microsoft NT Server Strategy and the Wolfpack
(http://www.microsoft.com/syspro/technet/boes/bo/winntas/prodfact/clustrwp.htm)

The SNAP (Scalable Networks and Platforms) Project in Microsoft
(http://www.research.microsoft.com/)

Jim Gray's home page has many interesting articles on clusters, database, and scalable servers
(http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/barc/Gray)

Sequent Symmetry 5000 Cluster (http://www.sequent.com/public/solution/server/s5000cl.html)

Sun Microsystems

Solaris MC (http://www.sun.com/960201/cover/solaris-mc.html)

Another Solaris MC Page (Research at Sunlabs)
(http://www.sunlabs.com/research/solaris-mc/)

Sun Microsystems SPARCcluster
(http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/servers/cluster.html)

Ultra Enterprise Cluster PDB
(http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/servers/product/PDB/)
(http://www.sun.com/servers/ultra_enterprise/PDB/), and Parallel Database Server
(http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/servers/product/PDB/)

Sun Microsystems Ultra HPC Cluster
(http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/servers/product/PDB/)

Sun Microsystems Enterprise Cluster (http://www.sun.com/clusters/products.html)

Sun Microsystems Full Moon Cluster Roadmap
(http://www.sun.com/webtone/roadmaps/fullmoonclusters.html)

Tandem Himalaya (http://www.tandem.com/MENU_PGS/PROD_PGS/SERV&STR.HTM) 3.5. Massively Parallel Processors (MPPs and HPC) DEC HPC site (http://www.digital.com/info/hpc/welcome.html)

TOP 500 (http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/top500.html).World's TOP 500 most powerful computing sites (at Netlib, University of Tennessee)

NASA HPCC PetaFLOPS web site (http://www.hq.nasa.gov/hpcc/petaflops/)

NASA HPCC Program (http://www.hq.nasa.gov/hpcc/)

Cray T3E (http://www.cray.com/products/systems/crayt3e/)

IBM SP (http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/hardware/largescale/)

Intel Paragon (http://www.sdsc.edu/Services/ Consult/Paragon/paragon.html)

Tera Computer Company (http://www.tera.com)

Supercomputer (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/scandal/public/www/gifs.html)

The Stone SouperComputer (Beowulf) (http://www.esd.ornl.gov/facilities/beowulf/)

Dept. of Energy ASCI Platforms: Options Red (Sandia/Intel), Blue Pacific (LLNL/IBM), and Blue Mountain (LANI/SGI-Cray).(http://www.llnl.giv/asci/platforms)