The Extreme Linux
Page

Welcome to the Extreme Linux
Page, a
site created to complement and mirror the existing Beowulf and Cluster
Computing resources available on the Internet.

• Beowulf
  Underground
• Beowulf Project
• Beowulf FAQ
• TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
• Clusters @ TOP500

Software and Toolkits

• Linux
  • RedHat Linux
  • Turbolinux
• Compilers
• Cluster Computing Environments and Toolkits
  • Clubmask: Cluster Booting, Management, and Scheduling
  • Clustermaticfrom Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • MOSIX
    • MOSIX
    • openMosix
    • MosixView
    • clump/osfrom Pachyderm Software
  • Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR)from the Open Cluster Group
  • Rocksfrom the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI)
  • Scalable Cluster Environmentfrom the Department of Computer Engineering at Kasetsart
    University
  • Scyld Beowulf Cluster Operating Systemfrom Scyld Computing Corporation
  • Turbolinux EnFuzion^TMfrom Turbolinux
• Tools Not Listed AboveThese tools may be included in some Cluster Computing
  Environments but are often developed and available independently.
  • BProc: Beowulf Distributed Process Space
  • LinuxBIOSfrom Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Parallel Virtual File Systemfrom Clemson University
• Grid Computing Software
  • Apples
  • Condor
  • EveryWare
  • Globus
  • Legion
  • Netsolve
  • Ninf
  • Sun^TM Grid Engine
• Message Passing Applications Programming Interfaces (APIs)
  • The Message Passing Interface (MPI)
    • LAM/MPI
    • MPICH
  • Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)
• Queuing/Scheduling Software
  • Condor
  • DQS
  • Maui (Cluster Scheduler)
  • PBS
  • NQS

Hardware

• ASL Workstations, Inc.
• Extreme Machines USA
• Penguin Computing
• PSSC Labs

Parallel Programming

• Presentations
  • Thinking in Parallel: Concepts in Beowulferyby Forrest Hoffman
• Suggested Texts
  • Designing and Building Parallel Programs: Concepts and
    Tools for Parallel Software Engineering 

    by Ian Foster

  • An Introduction to Parallel Computing: Design and Analysis
    of Algorithms, Second Edition 

    by Ananth Grama, Vipin Kumar, and Anshul Gupta

  • Parallel Programming with MPIby Peter Pacheco
  • MPI: The Complete Reference (2-volume set)by Marc Snir and William Gropp
  • MPI: The Complete Reference (Vol. 2), Vol. 2 – The MPI-2
    Extensions 

    by William Gropp, Steven Huss-Lederman, Andrew Lumsdaine, Ewing Lusk, Bill Nitzberg, William Saphir, and Marc
    Snir

Interesting Clusters

• MCR Cluster (Multiprogrammatic Capability Cluster)at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Former and Famous Clusters
  • Avalonat Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Lokiat Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Stone SouperComputerat Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Other Extreme Linux Resources

• Extreme Linux Columnin Linux Magazine

  Recent Columns in PDF Format

  • Multi-Processing with OpenMP (January 2004)
  • OpenMP Multi-Processing, Part 2 (February 2004)
  • Logging with syslog-ng, Part One (November 2005)
  • Logging with syslog-ng, Part Two (January 2006)
  • Unified Parallel C 101 (March 2006)
  • Unified Parallel C, Part Two (May 2006)
  • Unified Parallel C, Part Three (June 2006)
• 2003 Clustering Supplementto Sys Admin