Cluster Computing White Paper
Cluster Computing White Paper Status – Final Release Version 2.0 Date – 28th December 2000 Editor-MarkBaker,UniversityofPortsmouth,UK Contents and Contributing Authors: 1 An Introduction to PC Clusters for High Performance Computing, Thomas Sterling California Institute of Technology and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA 2 Network Technologies, Amy Apon, University of Arkansas, USA, and Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK. 3 Operating Systems, Steve Chapin, Syracuse University, USA and Joachim Worringen, RWTH Aachen, University of Technology, Germany 4 Single System Image (SSI), Rajkumar Buyya, Monash University, Australia, Toni Cortes, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain and Hai Jin, University of Southern California, USA 5 Middleware, Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK, and Amy Apon, University of Arkansas, USA. 6 Systems Administration, Anthony Skjellum, MPI Software Technology, Inc. and Mississippi State University, USA, Rossen Dimitrov and Srihari Angulari, MPI Software Technology, Inc., USA, David Lifka and George Coulouris, Cornell Theory Center, USA, Putchong Uthayopas, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, Stephen Scott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, Rasit Eskicioglu, University of Manitoba, Canada 7 Parallel I/O, Erich Schikuta, University of Vienna, Austria and Helmut Wanek, University of Vienna, Austria 8 High Availability, Ira Pramanick, Sun Microsystems, USA 9 Numerical Libraries and Tools for Scalable Parallel Cluster Computing, Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and ORNL, USA, Shirley Moore, University of Tennessee, USA, and Anne Trefethen, Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd, UK 10 Applications, David Bader, New Mexico, USA and Robert Pennington, NCSA, USA 11 Embedded/Real-Time Systems, Daniel Katz, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA and Jeremy Kepner, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA 12 Education, Daniel Hyde, Bucknell University, USA and Barry Wilkinson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Preface Cluster computing is not a new area of computing.
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