- /parallel/
- Added new Spanish mirror site at Comision de Extension
Universitaria, Facultade de Informatica da Universidade de A
Coruña, Galicia, Spain. Access: 24 hours / 7 days access, no
restrictions (180 anonymous sessions allowed) at
<URL:ftp://ceu.fi.udc.es/pub/parallel/>
- /parallel/environments/pvm3/wamm/wamm11.tar.gz
- "WAMM: Wide Area Metacomputer Manager 1.1"
- /parallel/environments/pvm3/wamm/manualeWAMM.ps.gz
- "WAMM 1.1 Manual (In Italian)"
- /parallel/environments/pvm3/wamm/Paper_WAMM-PVaniM.ps.gz
- "Integrating PVaniM into WAMM for Monitoring Meta-Applications"
by R. Baraglia <R.Baraglia@cnuce.cnr.it>; M. Cosso; D. Laforenza
<D.Laforenza@cnuce.cnr.it> and M. Nicosia. CNUCE - Institute
of the Italian National Research Council, Via S.Maria, 36 -
I56100 Pisa, Italy.
ABSTRACT:
Metacomputing is one of the most interesting evolutions of Parallel
Processing. A complete environment for metacomputing should
have tools for monitoring applications that can gather
information both on the applications being executed and on
the processors that they are executed on. Such data can be
used to manage statistics, for debugging, and for tuning
meta-applications. This paper describes an integration
between WAMM, a visual interface for the configuration and
management of a metacomputer, and PVaniM, a system that
provides support for displaying the behaviour of PVM
applications.
- /parallel/languages/handel/
- New area with Handel and Handel-C links
- http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/ian.page/handel/handel.html
- "The Handel Language"
by Ian Page
Background on the Handel and Handel-C language(s).
Handel-C is jointly owned and copyrighted by ESL.
- http://www.embedded-solutions.ltd.uk/ProdApp/handelc.htm
- "Embedded Solutions Ltd.: Handel-C"
Manuals together with an evaluation copy of the toolset and a special
free issue version for academic use.
- /parallel/environments/pvm3/adsmith/ieice97.ps.gz
- "Adsmith: An Object-Based Distributed Shared Memory System for
Networks of Workstations"
by Wen-Yew Liang; Chun-Ta King and Feipei Lai.
ABSTRACT:
This paper introduces an ob ject-based distributed shared memory
(DSM) system called Adsmith. The primary goal of Adsmith is
to provide a low-cost, portable, and efficient DSM for
networks of workstations (NOW). Adsmith achieves this goal by
building on top of PVM, a widely supported communication
subsystem, as a user-level library and by incorporating many
traffic reduction and latency hiding techniques. Issues
involved in the design of Adsmith and our solution strategies
will be discussed. Preliminary performance evaluation of
Adsmith on a network of Pentium computers will be presented.
The results show that programs developed with Adsmith can
achieve a performance comparable to that developed with PVM.
- /parallel/environments/pvm3/adsmith/wdsta97.ps.gz
- "A Compiler Supporting Distributed Shared Memory System"
by Rung-Ji Shang; Wen-Yew Liang; Jen-Chiun Lin and Feipei Lai.
ABSTRACT:
Distributed systems receive much attention because parallelism and
scalability are achieved with relatively low costs. Many
researches favor distributed shared memory (DSM) systems
since the concept of shared-memory can increase
programmability without much performance loss. In this paper,
a new language for distributed computing is introduced. We
have implemented a compiler which will generates executables
running on the Adsmith DSM system. What we provide is a
simple, efficient, general purposed, and portable solution.
Programming in the language can greatly reduce the
inconveniences programmers need to face when they only have
low level library routines at their hands. With the help of
our compiler, effective optimizations including bulk
transfer, non-blocking lock and nonexclusive lock are done to
help programmers from doing routinely hand-tuned
optimizations.
- /parallel/architecture/communications/
- Added:
- http://wallybox.cei.net/dipc/
- "Distributed Inter-Process Communication" (DIPC)
DIPC enables the programmers to write distributed programs by
modifying UNIX System V IPC mechanisms (messages, semaphores,
and shared memory segments) to function on a network. It is
currently available for x86 Linux sysems.
- /parallel/hardware/custom/
- Added:
- http://www.stellar.demon.co.uk/nanocomputer.htm
- "Fractal Nanocomputer"
by Joseph Michael <joe@stellar.demon.co.uk>
Describes how the construction of a fractal robot will eventually
lead to fractal nanotechnology compatible computers as the
size of the fractal robot and their built in controllers
shrink.
Self repairing and modular approach permit massive parallelism at low
cost.
- /parallel/internet/www/sites/europe/united-kingdom/
- Added:
- http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hpsg/
- "University of Warwick, High Performance Systems Group" (HPSG)
by Professor Graham R. Nudd, High Performance Systems Group,
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick,
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
The group's principal activities focus on many aspects of high
performance computing, including: the development of
performance analysis techniques and tools, the utilisation of
performance prediction methodologies to optimise industrial
strength applications (e.g. financial, visualisation), the
development of novel architectures for computationally
intensive applications.
The group is funded by DARPA/ITO to develop performance prediction
and analysis tools for high performance systems (PACE). Other
projects are funded by EPSRC/SERC, EU ESPRIT, MOD and the
DOD.
- /parallel/performance/models/
- Added:
- http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hpsg/pace_top.htm
- "Performance Analysis Environment" (PACE)
by Professor Graham R. Nudd <grn@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, High Performance
Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of
Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK; Tel: +44 1203 523366 (01203
523366)
A high performance application modelling tool that supports
independent descriptions for the application processing,
communication, and hardware components. PACE includes tools
to predict and analyse the performance of a parallel
homogeneous or heterogeneous systems and their applications.
- /parallel/books/manning/
- Added:
- http://www.manning.com/El-Rewini/
- "Distributed and Parallel Computing"
by Hesham El-Rwini, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA and Ted G.
Lewis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA.
This is a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art in concurrent
computing. It covers four major aspects: - Architecture and
performance; - Theory and complexity analysis of parallel
algorithms; - Programming languages and systems for writing
parallel and distributed programs; - Scheduling of parallel
and distributed tasks.
Hardbound, 469 pages, $60, Manning ISBN 1884777511