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Parallel computing extends to systems with more processors to obtain speedup in code execution. The efficiency and effectiveness of the parallelism are largely dependent on the problems to be solved with selected algorithms and hardware architectures. Based on load distribution and synchronization implementations, SIMD, MIMD, SPMD, and many other "fashions" have been categorized. Recently, multi-threading programming on SMP (Symmetrical Multiprocessor) architectures and message-passing programming on distributed memory systems (or even clustering systems) are becoming more and more popular. After all, scientific applications are still the major motivation behind the development of parallel computing technologies.

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Other Resources:

High Performance Cluster Computing Resources

http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/cluster/index.html

Beowulf Underground -- central source of information on Beowulf Computing.

http://beowulf-underground.org/

PAPERS -- custom hardware that allows a cluster of unmodified PCs and/or workstations to function as a fine-grain parallel computer capable of MIMD, SIMD, and VLIW execution.

http://garage.ecn.purdue.edu/~papers/

Avalon -- T-CNLS DEC/Alpha Cluster running Linux.

http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/

Extreme Linux

http://www.extremelinux.org/

The Kluster Project -- to design and manufacture clusters of workstations for a broad range of applications.

http://www.kluster.com/

xtreme MACHINES -- Commodity Supercomputing

http://www.xtreme-machines.com/

SCL Cluster Cookbook

http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/ClusterCookbook/

The Cluster Cookbook Home Page from The Portland Group, Inc. (PGI)

http://www.pgroup.com/ClusterCookbook/

Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO: This document provides an overview of how to use multiple processors to speed-up execution of an individual program. Use of SMP Linux systems, clusters of networked Linux systems, and attached (parallel) processors hosted by Linux, are all discussed.

http://yara.ecn.purdue.edu/~pplinux/pphowto.html

Parallel Processing using Linux:

http://suparum.rz.uni-mannheim.de/Linux/parallel/

NIH LoBoS Supercomputer Home Page --- an implementation of a Beowulf class computer, using Linux and 10,100 Gigabit Ethernet Drivers.

http://www.lobos.nih.gov/

The SHRIMP (Scalable, High-Performance, Really Inexpensive Multi-Processor) Project. The computing nodes of SHRIMP are Pentium PCs (Linux), and the routing network is the same one used in the Intel Paragon.

http://www.CS.Princeton.EDU/shrimp/

The HERMES Linux Production Cluster

http://lars.desy.de/cluster.html

Internet Parallel Computing Archive

http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/index.html

Parallel I/O Archive. This archive contains information about parallel I/O research. Most of the coverage relates to parallel file I/O.

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/pario/

Parallel Tools Projects Around the World: This page points to descriptions of parallel tool projects around the world.

http://www.ptools.org/projects.world.html

Supercomputing and Parallel Computing Research Groups

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/research-groups.html

High Performance Computing Archive

http://www.lpac.ac.uk/SEL-HPC/Articles/HpcArchive.html

Concurrent Systems

http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/concurrent.html

A Comprehensive Bibliography of Distributed Shared Memory

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~rasit/dsmbiblio.html

ParaScope: A Listing of Parallel Computing Sites

http://computer.org/parascope/

Yahoo Links:

http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Supercomputing_and_Parallel_Computing/

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