Links to Related Web Sites
The following links point to other Web sites related to the research topics
addressed by current users of the HPCC:
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HPCC applications. The standard filename extension
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because it is frequently misinterpreted as an extension for plain-text
documentation files; so after downloading a file identified as an MS Word
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you will need to rename it on your system by changing the extension back
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Although some browsers will allow you to open these documents directly on your computer,
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Bibliography
Here are a number of useful references pertaining to Beowulfs and other computational clusters:
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Argonne National Laboratory - "The Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard";
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpi/ (This site provides authoritative information on the Message Passing Interface standard.)
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Becker, Donald J. and Sterling, Thomas - "Beowulf: A Parallel Workstation for Scientific Computation";
Beowulf-ICPP95.pdf
(This is a seminal work on Beowulfs.)
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Beowulf.org - http://www.beowulf.org
(This WWW site provides broad coverage of issues and technology pertinent to set-up and use of Beowulfs.)
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IBM - "Beowulf clusters: e pluribus unum";
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/
linux/library/l-beow.html
(This is a well-organized WWW page rich in links to other authoritative and informative WWW sites, documents, and pages.)
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Bibliography (continued)
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Leopold, Claudia - Parallel and Distributed Computing; John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; 2001; 260 pages. (This book provides a readable, mid-depth summary,
explanation, and comparison of the many paradigms and models of multi-processor
and multi-system computation.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory - "PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine"; http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/
(This is an authoritative and informative WWW site for PVM, a software package enabling heterogeneous computers to be linked through network connections into a virtual single system.)
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Radajewski, Jacek; and Eadline, Douglas - "Beowulf HOWTO";
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/
HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/i
Beowulf-HOWTO.html
(This document is a practical guide to building a Beowulf.)
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Sloan, Joseph D. - High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, openMosix & MPI; O'Reily; 2005; 350 pages.
(This book presents several tools and technologies for facilitating the set-up and operations of Linux clusters for computation. In particular,
it presents information on OSCAR and Rocks, two alternative tools for automating the installation and configuration of software on
Beowulf nodes.)
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Sterling, Thomas L. (editor) - Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux; The MIT Press, 2002; 496 pages.
(This practical book provides detailed technical information
with uniquely broad coverage of the problems and needs of Beowulf administrators and users. Though showing its age, it remains highly recommended.)
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Sterling, Thomas L.; Salmon, John; Becker, Donald J.; and Savarese, Daniel F. - How to Build a Beowulf; The MIT Press; 1999; 239 pages. (This book, which has largely been supplanted by later works, is one of the earliest books providing practical advice on Beowulf building and operation.)
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Wilkinson, Barry and Allen, Michael - Parallel Programming: Techniques and Applications Using Networked Workstations and Parallel Computers (Second Edition); Pearson Prentice Hall; 2005; 467 pages. (This is an up-to-date text covering a variety of topics in parallel programming and illustrating useful and practical techniques.)
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