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Communication Characteristics of Large-Scale Scientific Applications.. - Vetter, Mueller (2002)(Correct)
This paper examines the explicit communication
characteristics of several sophisticated scientific
applications, which, by themselves, constitute a
representative suite of publicly available benchmar... / partition had nodes and the operating system was AIX . . . Each SMP node br Applications for Contemporary Cluster Architectures Jeffrey S.
Intermediary Infrastructures for the WWW - Dikaiakos (2002)(Correct)
Intermediaries are software entities deployed on Internet hosts of the wireline and wireless
Web that intervene to the flow of information from clients to origin servers of the WWW. unknown Intermedi... /
KNITS: Switch-based Connection Hand-off - Papathanasiou, Van Hensbergen (2002)(Correct)
This paper describes a mechanism allowing nodes to hand-off active connections by utilizing connection splicing at an edge-switch serving as a gateway to a server cluster. The mechanism is primarily i... / no modification to the operating system on the servers or the clients br serving as a gateway to a server cluster. The mechanism is primarily
Policy Based End Server Resource Regulation - Garg, Reddy (2002)(Correct)
As more and more critical services are provided over the Internet, the risk to these services from malicious users is also increasing. Several networks have witnessed problems like Denial of Service a... / to seconds. In most operating system implementations there is a br resources in a network a server cluster or in an end host thereby
Efficient Algorithms for Maximum Lifetime Data Gathering and.. - Kalpakis, Dasgupta, Namjoshi (2002)(Correct)
The rapid advances in processor, memory, and radio technology have enabled the development of distributed networks of small, inexpensive nodes that are capable of sensing, computation, and wireless co... / et al describe the TinyOS operating system that can be used by an ad-hoc br networks leach proposes a clustering-based protocol for
High-Density Computing: A 240-Processor Beowulf in One Cubic Meter - Warren, Weigle, Feng (2002)(Correct)
We present results from computations on Green
Destiny, a 240-processor Beowulf cluster which is
contained entirely within a single 19-inch wide 42U
rack. The cluster consists of 240 Transmeta TM5600
6... / development tools and Linux operating system. The RLX System comes in br Destiny a -processor Beowulf cluster which is contained entirely
Memory Mapped Networks: a new deal for Distributed Shared Memories ? - The Scifs Experience (2002)(Correct)
Distributed Shared Memories (DSM) performance has always
suffered from high network latencies and software
communication layers with a large overhead. Memory
mapped networks such as Scalable Coherent ... / memory without involving the operating system. To show how DSM systems can br offers basic services for SCI clusters such as messages remote
KECho - Event Communication for Distributed Kernel Services - Poellabauer, Schwan, Eisenhauer, Kong (2002)(Correct)
Event services have received increased attention as scalable tools for the composition of large-scale, distributed systems, as evidenced by their successful deployment in interactive multimedia applic... / are being added to existing operating systems and are intended to support br that will ensure the proper system operation in face of misbehaving
Cables: Thread Control and Memory Management Extensions for Shared.. - Jamieson, Bilas (2002)(Correct)
Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although clusters have many adv... / data placement is affected by operating system WindowsNT limitations in br measure the overhead of basic system operations. ii We demonstrate that
Life with Ed: A Case Study of a LinuxBIOS/BProc Cluster - Choi, Hendriks, Minnich, Sottile.. (2002)(Correct)
In this paper, we describe experiences with our 127-node/161-processor Alpha cluster testbed, Ed. Ed is unique for two distinct reasons. First, we have replaced the standard BIOS on the cluster nodes ... / Flash RAM Second the operating system provides a single-system br A Case Study of a LinuxBIOS BProc Cluster Sung-Eun Choi Erik A.
Comments on "Transparent User-Level Process Checkpoint and Restore.. - Rauch, Stricker (2002)(Correct)
The simple checkpointing and migration system for
UNIX processes as described in the article of Bozyigit
and Wasiq [1] can be improved in two ways: First by a
technique to checkpoint and migrate appli... / be rebooted to change the operating system or to perform maintenance br multi purpose and multi boot clusters are not necessarily built out of
Virtual Machines and Consciousness - Sloman, Chrisley (2002)(Correct)
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Abstract
Replication or even modelling of consciousness in machines requires some clarifications
and refinements of our concept of consciousness. Fortunately, design of, constru... / file protection system in an operating system conscious of attempts to br because consciousness is a cluster concept as explained below.
Java Tools and Technologies for Cluster Computing - Hawick (2001)(Correct)
The Java language and its associated libraries and environment provide
a powerful and flexible platform for programming computer clusters. Java
tools and technologies enable experimentation in both ma... / in terms of hardware and operating system and revision cluster. It is br Java Tools and Technologies for Cluster Computing K.A. Hawick H.A.
Java for High-Performance Computing - Lobosco, Amorim, Loques (2001)(Correct)
There has been an increasing research interest in extending the use of Java towards high-performance demanding applications such as scalable web servers, multimedia applications, and large-scale scien... / among dierent hardware and operating system platforms. This objective is br high-performance computing cluster computing Introduction Java
The Cyclone Server Architecture: Streamlining Delivery of Popular.. - Rost, Byers, Bestavros (2001)(Correct)
We propose a new technique for efficiently delivering popular content from information repositories with bounded file caches. Our strategy relies on the use of fast erasure codes (a.k.a. forward error... / efforts have focused on operating system optimizations e.g. memory br setting within a web server cluster or in a wide-area setting
DSM-PM2: A portable implementation platform for multithreaded DSM.. - Antoniu, Bougé (2001)(Correct)
DSM-PM2 is a platform for designing, implementing and experimenting multithreaded
DSM consistency protocols. It provides a generic toolbox which
facilitates protocol design and allows for easy exper... / communication library or operating system or at least be able to br portable across a wide range of clusters. We illustrate its power with
A Synchronized Real-Time Linux Based Myrinet Cluster for.. - Manoj Apte Srigurunath (2001)(Correct)
This paper describes the design and implementation of a real-time cluster of PCs that
provides globally synchronized scheduling and predictable messaging passing. A high-accuracy,
fine-grain global cl... / the underlying architecture operating system and middleware. High br Real-Time Linux Based Myrinet Cluster for Deterministic High
DSM-PM2: A portable implementation platform for multithreaded DSM.. - Gabriel Antoniu And (2001)(Correct)
DSM-PM2 is a platform for designing, implementing
and experimenting multithreaded DSM consistency protocols.
It provides a generic toolbox which facilitates protocol
design and allows for easy experim... / communication library or operating system. DSM-PM is a prototype br is portable across a wide range of clusters. We illustrate its power with
Removing the Overhead from Software-Based Shared Memory - Radovic, Hagersten (2001)(Correct)
The implementation presented in this paper---DSZOOM-WF--- is a sequentially consistent, fine-grained distributed software-based shared memory. It demonstrates a protocol-handling overhead below a micr... / cluster interconnect and an operating system bypass functionality similar br basic low-level primitives in the cluster interconnect and an operating
A Fine-Grain Clock Synchronization Mechanism for QoS Based.. - Chakravarthi, Pillai, Padmanabhan.. (2001)(Correct)
Clock synchronization is a fundamental requirement for any real-time distributed system operating with
global schedules. This paper describes the design and implementation of a high accuracy (4 s) glo... / with MB of SRAM. The operating system used is Linux . . . The br for any real-time distributed system operating with global schedules. This
Load Balancing and Unbalancing for Power and Performance in.. - Eduardo Pinheiro Ricardo (2001)(Correct)
In this paper we address power conservation for clusters of workstations
or PCs, such as those that support a large number of research
/teaching organizations and most Internet companies. Our approach... / network server at the operating system level for an operating system br for Power and Performance in Cluster-Based Systems Eduardo
A Memory Insensitive Technique for Large Model Simplification - Lindstrom, Silva (2001)(Correct)
In this paper we propose three simple, but significant improvements
to the OoCS (Out-of-Core Simplification) algorithm of Lindstrom
[20] which increase the quality of approximations and extend
the app... / slowdown as in the case of operating system paging Our algorithm is br which constrains the optimal cluster representative to lie inside its
Proactive Management of Software Aging - Castelli, Harper, Heidelberger.. (2001)(Correct)
this
paper may be copied or distributed royalty free without further permission by computer-based and other information-service systems. Permission to republish any other portion of
this paper must be... / process group or entire operating system depending on the br policies on the availability of cluster systems we have developed
Web Proxy Acceleration - Rosu, Iyengar, Dias (2001)(Correct)
This paper proposes and evaluates a new approach for improving the unknown Preprint 0 (2001) ?--? 1
Web Proxy Acceleration
Daniela Rosu
Arun Iyengar
Daniel Dias
IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
P.O... / running under an embedded operating system optimized for communication br Scalability with the Web proxy cluster size is achieved by using several
Alpine: A User-Level Infrastructure for Network Protocol Development - Ely, Savage, Wetherall (2001)(Correct)
In traditional operating systems, modifying the network
protocol code is a tedious and error-prone task, largely because
the networking stack resides in the kernel. For this
reason, among others, many... / Abstract In traditional operating systems modifying the network br to device hardware for low-latency cluster processing In contrast
Instantaneous Offloading of Transient Web Server Load - Panteleenko, Freeh (2001)(Correct)
A modern web-hosting site is designed to handle load that is sometimes an order of magnitude
greater than the average load. Such a site can be expensive and is underutilized most of the time. We
des... / that runs on top of the Linux operating system without any modification to br the sites are built as web server clusters that host multiple web domains
The Polder Computing Environment, a system for interactive.. - Iskra, Belleman, van Albada, al. (2001)(Correct)
rformance computing and interactive simulation facilities to
computational science. The characteristics of the underlying wide-area cluster system DAS are described.
The issues of efficient manageme... / and a public network. The operating system is Linux and various br of the underlying wide-area cluster system DAS are described. The
CableS : Thread Control and Memory System Extensions for Shared.. - Jamieson, Bilas (2001)(Correct)
Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although clusters have many adv... / in improper placement due to operating system limitations in virtual memory br Most hardware shared memory system and operating system vendors provide a
An Empirical Study of Operating Systems Errors - Andy Chou Junfeng (2001)(Correct)
We present a study of operating system errors found by
automatic, static, compiler analysis applied to the Linux
and OpenBSD kernels. Our approach differs from previous
studies that consider errors fo... / An Empirical Study of Operating Systems Errors Andy Chou Junfeng br How long do bugs last Do bugs cluster How do different operating
The Design and Implementation of a Fault-Tolerant Cluster Manager - Ming (2001)(Correct)
Cluster management middleware schedules tasks on a cluster, controls access to shared resources, provides for task submission and monitoring, and coordinates the cluster's fault tolerance mechanisms. ... / local copy of an off-the-shelf operating system that is not designed to br Implementation of a Fault-Tolerant Cluster Manager Daniel Goldberg Ming
Anatomy of a Resource Management System for HPC Clusters - Keller, Reinefeld (2001)(Correct)
Workstation clusters are often not only used for high-throughput computing in time-sharing mode but also for running
complex parallel jobs in space-sharing mode. This poses several difficulties to the... / the user than the underlying operating system. The resource management br for changes additionally the system operator may force the AM via the
A Framework for Effective Scheduling of Data-Parallel Applications in .. - Walker (2001)(Correct)
Grid systems -- a unified collection of resources connected by a network -- have
potential to deliver high performance for many applications and many system users.
Achieving high performance in a grid... / in its underlying hardware operating system file system or network br C i the i th machine cluster p i the i th processor
Kernel Mechanisms for Service Differentiation in Overloaded Web.. - Voigt, Tewari, Freimuth (2001)(Correct)
The increasing number of Internet users and innovative new services such as e-commerce are placing new demands on Web servers. It is becoming essential for Web servers to provide performance isolation... / subsystem in commercial operating systems that typically implement a br customer sites on the same server cluster or large SMP are becoming
Susceptibility of Modern Systems and Software to Soft Errors - Messer, Bernadat, Fu, Chen.. (2001)(Correct)
It is widely understood that most downtime is accounted for by
programming errors and administration time. However, recent
work has indicated an increasing cause of downtime may stem
from transient ha... / and the susceptibility of operating systems and applications to them br without the cost of a failover cluster. Internal Accession Date Only
I/O Buffer Management for Shared Storage Devices in SCI-based.. - Hansen (2001)(Correct)
This paper concerns the sharing of storage devices in clusters, where the storage devices are distributed across the nodes in the cluster. Compared to centralized storage servers, such an architecture... / of a long exible snout an operating system infrastructure that uses br with the operating system operating system events. The
Protection of Contiguous Memory Blocks - Renault (2001)(Correct)
The Multi-PC machine is a cluster of PC implementing the remote-write
protocol, that is the sender of a message has to specify all the parameters
needed for the transmission. In particular, the mo... / between the hardware the operating system and the user is composed of br The Multi-PC machine is a cluster of PC implementing the
Performance Evaluation of the Quadrics Interconnection - Petrini, Coll, Frachtenberg, Hoisie (2001)(Correct)
In this paper we present an in-depth description of the Quadrics interconnection network (QsNET) and an experimental performance evaluation on a 64-node Alphaserver cluster. We expose the performance ... / User-level Communication Operating System Bypass. Introduction br on a -node Alphaserver cluster. We expose the performance and
Energy Management of Virtual Memory on Diskless Devices - Jerry Hom Ulrich (2001)(Correct)
In a pervasive computing environment, applications are
able to run across different platforms with significantly
different resources. Such platforms range from highperformance
desktops to handheld PDA... / purposes has concentrated on operating system and hardware techniques br views the sum total memory of a cluster as a single cache space
Fault Tolerance for Cluster Computing Based on Functional Tasks - Schreiner, Kusper, Bosa (2001)(Correct)
We have extended the parallel computer algebra environment
Distributed Maple by fault tolerance mechanisms such that the
time spent in a long running computation is not any more wasted by
the eve... / our control machine network operating system faults may happen in any br hti message is issued the system operates analogously to a task
A Scalable, Distributed Middleware Service Architecture to Support.. - Phan, Guy, Bagrodia (2001)(Correct)
Middleware layers placed between user clients and application
servers have been used to perform a variety of functions.
In previous work we have used middleware to perform a new
capability, applicatio... / In feedback from the operating system level aided user br of a Network of Workstations cluster but our service can be
Design and Deployment of a Passive Monitoring Infrastructure - Fraleigh, Diot, Lyles, Owezarski.. (2001)(Correct)
This paper presents the architecture of a passive monitoring system installed within the Sprint IP backbone network. This system di ers from other packet monitoring systems in that it collects packet-... / extreme failures the entire operating system may be reinstalled over the br systems. A node computing cluster used for data analysis. The
Balance of Power: Energy Management for Server Clusters - Jeffrey Chase Department (2001)(Correct)
One unintended effect of the growth of the Internet
is increased energy usage by servers and the infrastructure
supporting them. This paper promotes a
research agenda to improve the energy efficiency ... / resource to be managed by the operating system. That work and other OS br Energy Management for Server Clusters Jeffrey S. Chase Department
Shared Virtual Memory Clusters with Next--generation Interconnection.. - Courtney Gibson And (2001)(Correct)
Recently much e#ort has been spent on providing a shared address space abstraction
on clusters of small--scale symmetric multiprocessors. However, advances in technology will
soon make it possible t... / overheads associated with the operating system and data copying. With br Shared Virtual Memory Clusters with Next-generation
Object Distribution with Local Information - Silaghi, Keleher (2001)(Correct)
We investigate the problem of distributing communicating
objects across wide-area environments. Our goals are
to balance load, minimize network communication, and use
resources efficiently. However, a... / to model middleware and operating system occupancy. The cost of br and in making migration and clustering decisions based on profiled
User-Level Communication in a System with Gang Scheduling - Yoav Etsion And (2001)(Correct)
One of the scarce resources that limits communication
performance is buffer space on the network interface card.
This becomes even worse when it is partitioned among several
time-sliced processes. How... / support DMA thus limiting the operating system s flexibility in memory br process's regular context. Since clusters using gang scheduling use a
Web Switch Support for Differentiated Services - Cardellini, Casalicchio, Colajanni.. (2001)(Correct)
As the Web is becoming a medium widely used as a preferential
channel for critical information exchange, business,
and e-commerce, it is necessary to enable di erentiated service
mechanisms not only a... / Web application server and operating system level e.g. Most br a Web site hosted on a Web-server cluster that is an architecture composed
Ubiquitous Computing and the Need for a New Operating System.. - Golm, Kleinöder (2001)(Correct)
Traditional operating system architectures are not able
to cope with the demands of ubiquitous computing. These
demands include mobility of code and running applications,
precise resource control, rob... / and the Need for a New Operating System Architecture Michael Golm br for load balancing in a Unix cluster Processes can only
The Performance of MPI Derived Types on a SGI Origin 2000, a Cray.. - Luecke, Spanoyannis, Coyle (2001)(Correct)
This paper compares the performance of MPI derived types with user packing on a SGI
Origin 2000, a Cray T3E-900, a Myrinet Linux cluster and an Ethernet Linux cluster. Four
communication tests using... / For all tests the IRIX . operating system the Fortran compiler br a Cray T E- a Myrinet Linux Cluster and an Ethernet Linux Cluster
The Component-based Environment for Remote Sensing - DeBardeleben, Ligon, III, Stanzione, .. (2001)(Correct)
As the quality and accuracy of remote sensing instruments
available improves, the ability to quickly process
remotely sensed data is in increasing demand. A side effect of
this increased quality and a... / CPUs. The software including operating system is low cost no cost and br performed sequentially. Beowulf clusters are large computers comprised of
Data Mining on PC Cluster connected with Storage Area Network: Its.. - Oguchi, Kitsuregawa (2001)(Correct)
Personal computer/Workstation (PC/WS) clusters have become a hot research topic recently in the field of parallel and distributed computing. They are considered to play an important role as a large sc... / sophisticated UNIX-based operating systems have been implemented on br Data Mining on PC Cluster connected with Storage Area
Datamation 2001: A Sorting Odyssey - Florentina Popovici John (2001)(Correct)
We present our experience of turning a Linux cluster
into a high-performance parallel sorting system.
Our implementation, WIND-SORT, broke the Datamation
record by roughly a factor of two, sorting
1 m... / Three disks including the operating system root disk are on one bus. br our experience of turning a Linux cluster into a high-performance parallel
Performance Modeling of the Cluster Interconnect Clint - Hans Eberle Sun (2001)(Correct)
The cluster interconnect Clint
1
has a segregated architecture
that provides two separate transmission
channels: a bulk channel optimized for high-bandwidth
traffic and a quick channel optimized for... / in that they often bypass operating systems and do not rely on a br Performance Modeling of the Cluster Interconnect Clint Hans Eberle
Using Arbitrary Memory Regions for SCI Communication - Seifert, Worringen, Rehm (2001)(Correct)
The gap between the memory bandwidth and the bandwidth of modern high--performance interconnects is getting smaller. This increases the relative performance penalty for each copy operation on a data b... / mechanism for the Linux operating system to lock arbitrary ranges of br processes on different nodes of a cluster. The optimal solution is direct
An Erlang-based hierarchical distributed VoD System - Juan Sanchez Jose (2001)(Correct)
Video on Demand (VoD) is a service that enables users to request
any multimedia content at any time, without being constrained by any
pre-established scheduling. Current commercial solutions tend to... / tools has allowed for easy operating system and hardware neutrality. br language Erlang and built over a cluster-based architecture Beowulf
Effective Use of Networked Reconfigurable Resources - Staicu, Radzikowski, Gaj.. (2001)(Correct)
Distributed reconfigurable resources, such as FPGA-based
accelerator boards
1
are expensive and often underutilized.
Therefore, it is important to permit sharing these resources at
least among the m... / scalability. C. Distributed Operating System Distributed Operating br of resources are workstations and clusters that are equipped with Field
Detecting Novel Attacks by Identifying Anomalous Network Packet.. - Mahoney, Chan (2001)(Correct)
We describe a simple and efficient network intrusion detection algorithm that detects novel attacks by flagging anomalous field values in packet headers at the data link, network, and transport layers... / monitors network traffic operating system events or the file system to br improve on these results by using clustering rather than a hash function to
DIAPRISM Hardware Sorter - Sort Million Records (2001)(Correct)
This document is an updated version of the previous one and also contains the description about
the program unknown
DIAPRISM Hardware Sorter
--- Sort a Million Records in 0.980 Second ---
Shinsuke... / data disks in total The operating system is Windows NT Server . . We br NOW-Sort with a -node cluster of UltraSPARCs and the 's
The Shape of Failure - Heath, Martin, Nguyen (2001)(Correct)
Introduction
The construction of highly available Internet services is an
inexact science at best. Complete and partial outages due
to a myriad of failures are still common. Indeed, as Internet
servi... / The application database operating system and firmware contain br obtained the last logs of two clusters operating in very different
SVEX: Secure Vector EXecute - Marks (2001)(Correct)
Introduction
We have designed and implemented a secure remote command execution library for
clusters of Unix workstations. Called Secure Vector Execute (SVEX), our work was
based largely on the porta... / require no modi cations to the operating system kernel. This helps to br command execution library for clusters of Unix workstations. Called
High Performance Computing: Crays, Clusters, and Centers. What Next? - Gordon Bell And (2001)(Correct)
After 50 years of building high performance scientific computers, two major
architectures exist: (1) clusters of "Cray-style" vector supercomputers; (2) clusters of scalar
uni- and multi-processors.... / the Linux GNU or Windows operating system plus tools that have evolved br High Performance Computing Crays Clusters and Centers. What Next
Clustered Data Acquisition for CMS - Gutleber Antchev Cano (2001)(Correct)
Powerful mainstream computing equipment and the advent of affordable multi-Gigabit communication
technology permit us to address data acquisition problems with clusters of inexpensive computers. Such ... / consists of two parts the Operating System Module OSM is hardware br Clustered Data Acquisition for CMS J.
Flexible Network Attached Storage using Remote DMA - Hansen (2001)(Correct)
We propose to make nodes in a cluster double as compute nodes and network attached storage (NAS) nodes. This allows for a flexible and customizable storage system as the NAS control software is handle... / of a long exible snout an operating system infrastructure that uses br with the operating system operating system events. The
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Reliably Locking System V Shared Memory for User Level Communication.. - Chemnitz University Of (2001)(Correct)
A major trend in recent cluster communication systems is to
circumvent the operating system during the actual data transfers.
That, on the one hand, reduces latency since there is no
user--kernel tran... / systems is to circumvent the operating system during the actual data br Abstract A major trend in recent cluster communication systems is to
Windows Performance Monitoring and Data Reduction using - Knop (2001)(Correct)
We describe and evaluate WatchTower, a system
that simplifies the collection of Windows performance
counter data for monitoring and usage
profiling of Windows machines. WatchTower
has overheads simila... / for the Windows and NT operating systems. By unobtrusive we mean br user. Introduction Clusters are becoming the standard
Editorial - By Friedrich Leisch (2001)(Correct)
This article presents a new R package, rpvm, that
provides an interface to PVM from one of the most
powerful and flexible statistical programming environments.
With rpvm, the R user can invoke either
... / released OS X its new operating system. OS X now comes preinstalled br and Mac OS X . RPVM Cluster Statistical Computing in R .
Author Information - Name Moon-Sang Lee (2001)(Correct)
VIA is an industry standard for user-level communication. It specifies light-weight
communication module for cluster environment. Although several previous studies have
researched for the performance ... / is a privileged part of the operating system that performs the set-up and br communication module for cluster environment. Although several
Differentiated and Predictable Quality of Service in Web Server.. - Aron (2000)(Correct)
As the World Wide Web experiences increasing commercial and mission-critical use, server systems are expected to deliver high and predictable performance. The phenomenal improvement in microprocessor ... / management facilities in the operating system software are studied. This
Design and Evaluation of Communication Latency Hiding/Reduction.. - Afsahi (2000)(Correct)
With the availability of fast microprocessors and small-scale multiprocessors, internode
communication has become an increasingly important factor that limits the performance
of parallel computers. Es... / been developed to remove the operating system kernel and protocol stack br Using Message Prediction for Clusters of
Fine-Grain Configurability for Secure Communication - Hiltunen, Jaiprakash, Schlichting.. (2000)(Correct)
Current solutions for providing communication security in network applications allow customization
of certain security attributes and techniques, but in limited ways and without the
benefit of a sin... / Pentiums using the Mach MK . operating system. June Department br implementation running on a cluster of Pentiums using the Mach MK
High Performance Computing for Asset Liability Management - Gondzio, Kouwenberg (2000)(Correct)
Financial institutions require sophisticated tools for risk management. For company-wide
risk management both sides of the balance sheet should be considered, resulting in an integrated
asset liabil... / of PC's running under Linux operating system. One might question whether br computing environment including a cluster of PC's running under Linux
Reducing the Cost of System Administration of a Disk Storage System.. - Asami (2000)(Correct)
Reducing the Cost of System Administration of a Disk Storage System Built from
Commodity Components
by
Satoshi Asami
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
University of California at Berkeley
... / disks running the FreeBSD operating system. The system is used as a br and software. Tertiary Disk is a cluster of storage nodes connected by
The Distributed ASCI Supercomputer Project - Bal, Bhoedjang, Hofman, Jacobs.. (2000)(Correct)
The Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS) is a homogeneous wide-area distributed system consisting
of four cluster computers at di erent locations. DAS has been used for research on communication
sof... / network and run the same operating system. Each university has fast br system consisting of four cluster computers at dierent locations.
Improving Parallel Job Scheduling Using Runtime Measurements - Silva, Scherson (2000)(Correct)
We investigate in this paper the use of runtime measurements
to improve job scheduling on a parallel machine. Emphasis is on
gang scheduling based strategies. With the information gathered at runt... / task classi cation made by the operating system based on runtime br of Gang Scheduling on Workstation Cluster. Job Scheduling Strategies for
A Case for Asynchronous Computer Architecture - Manohar (2000)(Correct)
We present a summary of the state-of-the art
in asynchronous VLSI and architecture. We present several
reasons for adopting an asynchronous approach to computer
architecture, including lower design ... / interconnect running a free operating system and use it for most major br Today it is possible to network a cluster of PCs with commodity
Providing Hardware DSMPerformance at Software DSM Cost - Heinrich, Speight (2000)(Correct)
Emerging trends in commodity network technology coupled with key insights from academic research in active memory systems are leading toward the realization of hardware DSM on commodity clusters. We c... / the architectural and operating systems issues that must be br of hardware DSM on commodity clusters. We call the result of this
Archipelago: An Island-Based File System For Highly Available And.. - Ji (2000)(Correct)
Maintaining availability in the face of failures is a critical requirement for Internet services. Existing approaches in cluster-based data storage rely on redundancy to survive a small number of fail... / in Hive Hive an operating system for large-scale sharedmemory br principle as many file system operations as possible should require
REXEC: A Decentralized, Secure Remote Execution Environment for.. - Chun, Culler (2000)(Correct)
Bringing clusters of computers into the mainstream as
general-purpose computing systems requires that better facilities
for transparent remote execution of parallel and sequential
applications be deve... / contemporary hardware and operating systems. Implementations are either br Remote Execution Environment for Clusters Brent N. Chun and David E.
Hint-based Acceleration of Web Proxy Caches - Rosu (2000)(Correct)
Numerous studies show that proxy cache miss ratios
are typically at least 40%-50%. This paper proposes
and evaluates a new approach for improving the
throughput of proxy caches by reducing cache miss
... / running under an embedded operating system optimized for communication br Scalability with the Web proxy cluster size is achieved by using
Evaluating Cluster-Based Network Servers - Carrera, Bianchini (2000)(Correct)
In this paper we use analytic modeling and simulation to evaluate
network servers implemented on clusters of workstations. More
specifically, we model the potential benefits of locality-conscious requ... / which is accessed without operating system intervention using a modern br Evaluating Cluster-Based Network Servers
Disk-To-Disk Parallel Sorting On HPVM Clusters Running Windows NT - Rivera-Alvarez (2000)(Correct)
In order to measure database performance of computer systems, a collection of companies and
universities defined three benchmarks in 1985, including a disk-to-disk sort of one million records
1
,
wh... / of the benchmark hardware and operating system divided by one million. The br Parallel Sorting On Hpvm Clusters Running Windows Nt By Luis
Architectural Software Support for Processing Clusters - Gutleber, Cano, Cittolin, Meijers.. (2000)(Correct)
Mainstream computing equipment and the advent of
affordable multi-Gigabit communication technology
permit us to address grand-challenge data acquisition
and processing problems with clusters of inexpe... / environment for hardware- and operating system independent device drivers br Software Support for Processing Clusters J. Gutleber E. Cano S.
High Performance Parametric Modeling with Nimrod/G: Killer.. - Abramson, Giddy, Kotler (2000)(Correct)
This paper examines the role of parametric modeling as an application for the global computing grid, and explores some heuristics which make it possible to specify soft real time deadlines for larger ... / binary ccal for the target operating system. The plan file is processed br between the root machine and the cluster processes -unlike general
Concepts for Dependable Distributed Discrete Event Simulation - Lüthi, Berchtold (2000)(Correct)
In many situations, parallel and distributed simulation is a well-suited approach to overcome performance as well as capacity limitations of complex simulation models. However, if distributed simulati... / which is provided by the operating system of each PE. The br architecture nodes in a LAN cluster of workstations or even
Design Alternatives for Scalable Web Server Accelerators - Song (2000)(Correct)
We study design alternatives for, and describe prototypes and performance of, a scalable and highly available Web server accelerator. The accelerator runs under an embedded operating system and improv... / runs under an embedded operating system and improves Web server br The system consists of a cluster of Web accelerator nodes. The
Failure Recovery Algorithms for Multimedia servers - Shenoy, Vin (2000)(Correct)
In this paper, we present two novel disk failure
recovery methods that utilize the inherent characteristics
of video streams for efficient recovery. Whereas the first
method exploits the inherent re... / to software failures and operating-system crashes customers of br of D disks is partitioned into clusters of C disks C D
CLUE - Cluster Evaluation - Hlavacs, Kvasnicka, Ueberhuber (2000)(Correct)
This report describes the simulation tool CLUE which enables the highly accurate
performance assessment and prediction of clusters of symmetric multiprocessors
(SMPs). Using CLUE, reliable information... / of SMPs including hardware operating system and software. Sections . br CLUE Cluster Evaluation Helmut Hlavacs
Data Replication Strategies for Fault Tolerance and Availability on.. - Amza, Cox, Zwaenepoel (2000)(Correct)
Recent work has shown the advantages of using persistent
memory for transaction processing. In particular, the
Vista transaction system uses recoverable memory to avoid
disk I/O, thus improving perfor... / namely power failures and operating system crashes. An un-interruptible br and Availability on Commodity Clusters Cristiana Amza Alan L. Cox
Dependable Computing in Virtual Laboratories - Alonso, Bausch, Pautasso, Hallett.. (2000)(Correct)
Many scientific disciplines (e.g., biology, astrophysics, particle physics, earth sciences) are
shifting from in vitro to in silico research as more physical processes and natural phenomena
are simu... / algorithms and collections of operating system scripts mainly Perl br Biology when using a medium size cluster of computers between and
Implementing Journaling in a Linux Shared Disk File System - Kenneth Preslan Sistina (2000)(Correct)
In computer systems today, speed and responsiveness is often determined by network
and storage subsystem performance. Faster, more scalable networking interfaces
like Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ether... / code to the open source Linux operating system. We did this for several br caching and aggregating file system operations to improve performance by
S-DSM for Heterogeneous Machine Architectures - Eduardo Pinheiro Deqing (2000)(Correct)
Many---indeed most---distributed applications employ
some notion of distributed shared state: information required
at more than one location. For applications that
span the Internet, this state is alm... / program and signals from the operating system. The user calls support br across a locally-distributed cluster for the purpose of This
Speculative Defragmentation - A Technique to Improve the.. - Kurmann, Müller, Rauch, Stricker (2000)(Correct)
Cluster platforms like CoPs offer good compute performance, but still they cannot yet utilize the potential of Gigabit /s communication technology, at least not with commodity network adapters like Et... / zero-copy handling within the operating system the implementation br interconnect components for Clusters of PCs CoPs is visible. Most
A Network Co-processor-Based Approach to Scalable Media Streaming in.. - Raj Krishnamurthy Karsten (2000)(Correct)
This paper presents the embedded construction and
experimental results for a media scheduler on i960 RD
equipped I2O Network Interfaces (NI) used for streaming.
We utilize the Distributed Virtual Comm... / by extensions of the operating system kernel resident on each br among NIs within a server and clustering a number of such servers using
A Parallel Genetic Algorithm For Automated Electronic Circuit Design - Lohn, Colombano, Haith.. (2000)(Correct)
We describe a parallel genetic algorithm (GA) that automatically generates circuit
designs using evolutionary search. A circuit-construction programming language is introduced
and we show how evolutio... / Running The Linux Operating System. Using Pentium Iii Cpus br especially Beowulf-style computing clusters are becoming more a ordable and
Transparent Migration of Distributed Communicating Processes - Nasika, Dasgupta (2000)(Correct)
A Computing Community is a group of cooperating
machines that behave like a single system and runs all
general-purpose applications---without any modifications
to the shrink-wrapped binary applicat... / binary applications or the operating system. In order to realize such a br NOW approaches and the cluster approaches for distributed
A Comparative Evaluation of Implicit Coscheduling Strategies for.. - Cosimo Anglano Dipartimento (2000)(Correct)
Implicit coscheduling strategies enable parallel applications
to dynamically share the machines in a Network of
Workstation (NOW) with interactive, CPU and IO-bound
sequential jobs. In this paper we p... / SVR and the Sun Solaris operating systems. The two schedulers are br the illusion of a dedicated cluster coscheduling ensures that such
Scalability Limitations of VIA-Based Technologies in Supporting MPI - Brightwell, Maccabe (2000)(Correct)
This paper analyzes the scalability limitations of networking technologies based on the Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) in supporting the runtime environment needed for an implementation of the M... / has led to the development of operating system OS bypass protocols such br TM is to construct commodity cluster that is capable of scaling to
Architecture for a Grid Operating System - Krauter, Maheswaran (2000)(Correct)
A Grid architecture is proposed that is motivated by the large-scale routing principles in the Internet to provide an extensible, high-performance, scalable, and secure Grid. Central to the proposed a... / Architecture for a Grid Operating System Klaus Krauter and br of an intentional naming system Operating Systems Review Vol.
PVFS: A Parallel File System for Linux Clusters - Carns, Ligon, III, Ross, Thakur (2000)(Correct)
As Linux clusters have matured as platforms for low-cost, high-performance parallel computing, software packages to provide many key services have emerged, especially in areas such as message passing ... / the pack as the most popular operating system for clusters. As researchers br A Parallel File System for Linux Clusters Philip H. Carns Walter
Partition Cast - Modelling and Optimizing the Distribution of Large.. - Rauch, Kurmann, Stricker (2000)(Correct)
Multicasting large amounts of data efficiently to all nodes of a PC cluster is an important operation. In the form of a partition cast it can be used to replicate entire software installations by clon... / the installation of new operating system images within minutes. The br of Large Data Sets in PC Clusters Felix Rauch Christian Kurmann
Development Routes for Message Passing Parallelism in Java - Mathew James And (2000)(Correct)
Java is an attractive environment for writing portable message
passing parallel programs. Considerable work in message
passing interface bindings for the C and Fortran languages
has been done. We show... / for use on local and remote clusters amongst other parallel computing br platforms and especially on cluster based computing systems The
Domain-Specific Languages: An Annotated Bibliography - van Deursen, Klint, Visser (2000)(Correct)
We survey the literature available on the topic of
domain-specific languages as used for the construction and
maintenance of software systems. We list a selection of 75
key publications in the area, a... / structures in C and operating system specialization br knowledge in this domain. Cluster this knowledge in a handful of
Performance Monitoring on an HPVM Cluster - Sampemane, Pakin, al. (2000)(Correct)
Clusters of workstations are becoming popular
platforms for parallel computing, but performance
on these systems is more complex and harder to predict
than on traditional parallel machines. Hence,
per... / nodes run the Windows NT operating system and HPVM . software. br Performance Monitoring on an HPVM Cluster Geetanjali Sampemane
Domain-Specific Languages - van Deursen, Klint, Visser (2000)(Correct)
Domain-Specific Languages are used in software engineering in order to enhance quality, flexibility, and timely delivery of
software systems, by taking advantage of specific properties of a particular... / data structures in C and operating system specialization ffl br knowledge in this domain. Cluster this knowledge in a handful of
PARMON: A Portable and Scalable Monitoring System for Clusters - Buyya (2000)(Correct)
Workstation clusters have of late become a cost-effective solution for high
performance computing. C-DAC's PARAM OpenFrame is a large cluster of high performance
workstations interconnected through ... / running the SUN-Solaris operating system. The recent popularity of br and Scalable Monitoring System for Clusters Rajkumar Buyya School of
Scheduling with Global Information in Distributed Systems - Fabrizio Petrini And (2000)(Correct)
Buffered coscheduling is a distributed scheduling
methodology for time-sharing communicating processes in
a distributed system, e.g., PC cluster. The principle mechanisms
involved in this methodology ... / job scheduling distributed operating systems co-scheduling gang br in a distributed system e.g.PC cluster. The principle mechanisms
An optimized MPI library for VIA/SCI cards - Sven Schindler Wolfgang (2000)(Correct)
Rapid developments in computer architecture and in networking
technology have driven the construction of clusters
of cluster. Now cluster computers are an inexpensive alternative
to parallel computers... / is necessary to involve the operating system kernel for starting DMA br have driven the construction of clusters of cluster. Now cluster
Parallel Krylov Methods for Econometric Model Simulation - Giorgio Pauletto Hoover (2000)(Correct)
This paper investigates parallel solution methods to simulate large-scale
macroeconometric models with forward-looking variables. The method chosen
is the Newton-Krylov algorithm. We concentrate on ... / switch and Linux as its operating system. ffl Solving smarter br there came a trend toward clusters of complete computers using a
The PODOS File System - Exploiting The High-Speed (2000)(Correct)
Performance Oriented Distributed Operating System (PODOS) is a clustering environment, being built on a
monolithic Linux kernel. PODOS augments very few components to the Linux kernel in order to make... / Oriented Distributed Operating System PODOS is a clustering br Operating System PODOS is a clustering environment being built on a
Comparing the Communication Performance and Scalability of a Linux.. - Luecke, Raffin, Coyle (2000)(Correct)
This paper presents scalability and communication performance results for a cluster
of PCs running Linux with the GM communication library, a cluster of PCs running
Windows NT with the HPVM communic... / For all tests the IRIX . operating system the Fortran compiler br Scalability of a Linux and an NT Cluster of PCs a SGI Origin an
A Multiprotocol Communication Support for the Global Address Space.. - Jarek Nieplocha Jialin (2000)(Correct)
The paper describes an efficient communication support for the global
address space programming model on the IBM SP, a commercial example of the
SMP (symmetric multi-processor) clusters. Our appro... / coherent shared memory at the operating system level. Instead in a br SMP symmetric multi-processor clusters. Our approach integrates shared
Nomad: A Scalable Operating System for Clusters of Uni and.. - Eduardo Souza De (2000)(Correct)
The recent improvements in workstation and interconnection network performance have popularized
the clusters of off-the-shelf workstations. However, the usefulness of these clusters is yet to
be ful... / Nomad A Scalable Operating System for Clusters of Uni and br A Scalable Operating System for Clusters of Uni and Multiprocessors
Hybrid-DSM: An Efficient Alternative to Pure Software DSM Systems on.. - Karl, Schulz (2000)(Correct)
Usually, shared memory style programming is being supported on loosely coupled architectures like clusters or networks of workstations by pure software distributed shared memory (DSM) systems. With th... / in the form of a single global operating system however present a br loosely coupled architectures like clusters or networks of workstations by
Dynamic Runtime Scheduler Support for SCORE - Chu (2000)(Correct)
unknown Dynamic Runtime Scheduler Support for SCORE
By Michael Monkang Chu
Research Project
Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California a... / device and providing common operating system support such as file system br Quantized Priority frontier Cluster
Home-based Release Consistency in Object-based Software DSM Systems - Markus Zahn Computing (2000)(Correct)
This paper discusses the application of consistency models in objectbased
software distributed shared memory (DSM) systems. In particular,
we propose a home-based release consistency protocol as appli... / the same multithreaded operating system is used for single- and br computing nodes of a workstation cluster or messagepassing
Support For Software Maintenance Using Latent Semantic Analysis - Maletic, Marcus (2000)(Correct)
The paper describes the results of applying semantic
(versus structural) methods to the problems of software
maintenance and program comprehension. Here, the
focus is on tools to assist programmer to ... / Algorithms and MINIX Operating System The work supported the br in program comprehension. This clustering is used in the understanding
Comparing MPI Performance of SCI and VIA - Friedrich Seifert Daniel (2000)(Correct)
Both the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) and the Virtual
Interface Architecture (VIA) aim at providing effective cluster communication.
While the former is a standardized subnet technology the latte... / to another not to mention operating system kernel calls. This gives SCI br VIA aim at providing effective cluster communication. While the former