Parallel/Distributed/Concurrent Computing

Content

• General Information about distributed Computing
• Projects in Distributed and Parallel Computing
• Tools for distributed Computing
• Languages for distributed Computing
• Operating Systems for distributed Computing
• Coordination Languages
• Misc. about Petri Nets
• Machines for distributed Computing
• Misc for distributed Computing
• Benchmarks for distributed Computing
• Books for distributed Computing

General Info

• WANG'S BOOKSHELF (Parallel Computing) (USA) A collection of pointers/papers/etc about parallel computing.
• parallel archive (Tübingen) (DE)
• RUS, Parallel Computing Institute for Parallel and Distributed Computing / Institute for Computer-Applications, Stuttgart, Germany
• Nan's Parallel Computing Page
• EPCC Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (UK)
• Parallel I/O Archive (USA)
• Conference Announcements (UK)

Projects in Distributed and Parallel Computing

• The PARSE Project
• Vienna: Parallel and Distributed Processing
• Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer

Tools

• MPI is a message passing interface, a proposed standard. You can look at pages at Mississippi State U (USA) or Argonne Nat.Labs (ANL, USA)
• PVM (Oak Ridge Nat.Labs, USA) is a parallel virtual machine, a de-facto standard.
• P4 is parallel programming library consistsing of macros and subroutines for writing both shared-memory and message-passing programs.
• Fast Messages Communication Library
• Support for distributed grids/Arrays (USA)
• The Nexus Runtime Environment (ANL, USA) is used for Fortran M.
• NIST Parallel Applications Development Environment
• MPI-FM on Myrinet
• HeNCE (Heterogeneous Network Computing Environment)
• VPE (visual programming environment, based on PVM) (USA)
• CODE Visual Parallel Programming System
• Enterprise [PPS], U of Alberta(CA)
• The ToolBus
• Paradyn Project (parallel performance tool)

Languages

• GLU Granular Lucid, (SRI, USA)
• The CC++ Programming Language (Caltech, USA)
• Europa Parallel C++ Archive
• The Fortran M Programming Language (ANL, USA)
• Linda (Yale, USA)
• Arjuna (Distributed Computing) (UK)
• NESL: A Parallel Programming Language
• High Performance Fortran in Practice
• ECRC - FACILE, Facile Antigua Release Programming Guide
• High-Level Concurrent Languages

Operating Systems

• The MOSIX Multicomputer System

Coordination Languages

• Manifold
• COORDINATION -- Linguistic Support for Multiple Cooperating Agents
• Proceedings of COORDINATION Meeting
• Dome: Distributed Object Migration Environment
• Software Composition Group
• Info on Mentat

Misc. about Petri Nets

• Petri Nets, Design/CPN
• PEP is a Programming Environment based on Petri Nets.
• Object Petri Net Research at the University of Tasmania
• Introduction to Artifex and its Petri Nets

Machines

• Monsoon (USA)
• USC Multiprocessor Testbed Project (USA)
• MIT Alewife(USA)
• Data Diffusion Machine

Misc

• Impala (benchmarks for IMplicitly PArallel LAnguages)
• AVL FIRE (AT)
• EuroPar 95 (abstracts)

Benchmarks for "parallel"/distributed Computing

• SPLASH-2 BENCHMARK SUITE (USA)
• CMU task parallel program suite (USA)
• The NAS Parallel Benchmarks, Technical Report

Books

• PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Networked Parallel Computing
• Ian Foster: Designing and Building Parallel Programs (ANL, USA), mirror in Germany

Dataflow

• Dataflow Links
• Data-flow machines - additional topics course