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SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface

Author : Hermann Hellwagner

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 494 pages

File Size : 22,5 MB

Release : 1999-10-20

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3540666966

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Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) is an innovative interconnect standard (ANSI/IEEE Std 1596-1992) addressing the high-performance computing and networking domain. This book describes in depth one specific application of SCI: its use as a high-speed interconnection network (often called a system area network, SAN) for compute clusters built from commodity workstation nodes. The editors and authors, coming from both academia and industry, have been instrumental in the SCI standardization process, the development and deployment of SCI adapter cards, switches, fully integrated clusters, and software systems, and are closely involved in various research projects on this important interconnect. This thoroughly cross-reviewed state-of-the-art survey covers the complete hardware/software spectrum of SCI clusters, from the major concepts of SCI, through SCI hardware, networking, and low-level software issues, various programming models and environments, up to tools and application experiences.



SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface

Author : Hermann Hellwagner

Publisher : Springer

Page : 494 pages

File Size : 17,92 MB

Release : 2006-12-29

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3540470484

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Book Description

Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) is an innovative interconnect standard (ANSI/IEEE Std 1596-1992) addressing the high-performance computing and networking domain. This book describes in depth one specific application of SCI: its use as a high-speed interconnection network (often called a system area network, SAN) for compute clusters built from commodity workstation nodes. The editors and authors, coming from both academia and industry, have been instrumental in the SCI standardization process, the development and deployment of SCI adapter cards, switches, fully integrated clusters, and software systems, and are closely involved in various research projects on this important interconnect. This thoroughly cross-reviewed state-of-the-art survey covers the complete hardware/software spectrum of SCI clusters, from the major concepts of SCI, through SCI hardware, networking, and low-level software issues, various programming models and environments, up to tools and application experiences.



Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems

Author : Dimiter R. Avresky

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 396 pages

File Size : 16,50 MB

Release : 2012-12-06

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1461554497

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The most important use of computing in the future will be in the context of the global "digital convergence" where everything becomes digital and every thing is inter-networked. The application will be dominated by storage, search, retrieval, analysis, exchange and updating of information in a wide variety of forms. Heavy demands will be placed on systems by many simultaneous re quests. And, fundamentally, all this shall be delivered at much higher levels of dependability, integrity and security. Increasingly, large parallel computing systems and networks are providing unique challenges to industry and academia in dependable computing, espe cially because of the higher failure rates intrinsic to these systems. The chal lenge in the last part of this decade is to build a systems that is both inexpensive and highly available. A machine cluster built of commodity hardware parts, with each node run ning an OS instance and a set of applications extended to be fault resilient can satisfy the new stringent high-availability requirements. The focus of this book is to present recent techniques and methods for im plementing fault-tolerant parallel and distributed computing systems. Section I, Fault-Tolerant Protocols, considers basic techniques for achieving fault-tolerance in communication protocols for distributed systems, including synchronous and asynchronous group communication, static total causal order ing protocols, and fail-aware datagram service that supports communications by time.



Field-Programmable Logic and Applications

Author : Gordon Brebner

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 681 pages

File Size : 50,26 MB

Release : 2001-08-15

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3540424997

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Book Description

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Application, FPL 2001, held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, in August 2001. The 56 revised full papers and 15 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 117 submissions. The book offers topical sections on architectural framework, place and route, architecture, DSP, synthesis, encryption, runtime reconfiguration, graphics and vision, networking, processor interaction, applications, methodology, loops and systolic, image processing, faults, and arithmetic.





Parallel and Distributed Processing

Author : Jose Rolim

Publisher : Springer

Page : 667 pages

File Size : 43,99 MB

Release : 2003-06-26

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3540455914

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This volume contains the proceedings from the workshops held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2000, on 1-5 May 2000 in Cancun, Mexico. The workshopsprovidea forum for bringing together researchers,practiti- ers, and designers from various backgrounds to discuss the state of the art in parallelism.Theyfocusondi erentaspectsofparallelism,fromruntimesystems to formal methods, from optics to irregular problems, from biology to networks of personal computers, from embedded systems to programming environments; the following workshops are represented in this volume: { Workshop on Personal Computer Based Networks of Workstations { Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models { Workshop on Par. and Dist. Comp. in Image, Video, and Multimedia { Workshop on High-Level Parallel Prog. Models and Supportive Env. { Workshop on High Performance Data Mining { Workshop on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel { Workshop on Java for Parallel and Distributed Computing { WorkshoponBiologicallyInspiredSolutionsto ParallelProcessingProblems { Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems { Workshop on Embedded HPC Systems and Applications { Recon gurable Architectures Workshop { Workshop on Formal Methods for Parallel Programming { Workshop on Optics and Computer Science { Workshop on Run-Time Systems for Parallel Programming { Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems All papers published in the workshops proceedings were selected by the p- gram committee on the basis of referee reports. Each paper was reviewed by independent referees who judged the papers for originality, quality, and cons- tency with the themes of the workshops.



On-line Monitoring Systems and Computer Tool Interoperability

Author : Thomas Ludwig

Publisher : Nova Publishers

Page : 124 pages

File Size : 42,62 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Computers

ISBN : 9781590338889

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Ludwig (Institut fur Informatik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany) and Miller (computer science, U. of Wisconsin, US) present five papers examining the construction and methodology of tools for debugging and performance analysis in parallel programs. After a review of the past decade's work in debuggers and performance analyzers, papers look a tool infrastructure, an operational tool environment for multi-thread and multi-process debugging and execution visualization, multi-execution performance tuning, and the specification of performance properties of parallel applications using compound events. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).



Contributions to Simulation Speed-Up

Author : Eugen Lamers

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 165 pages

File Size : 31,82 MB

Release : 2008-08-17

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 383489513X

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Book Description

Eugen Lamers explains the principle of simulation speed-up in general and shortly demonstrates the technique RESTART for the simulation of rare events. He introduces the Short-Term Dynamic Simulation concept, developed for the planning of mobile radio networks.



How to Build a Beowulf

Author : Donald J. Becker

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 268 pages

File Size : 20,19 MB

Release : 1999-05-13

Category : Computers

ISBN : 9780262265416

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Book Description

This how-to guide provides step-by-step instructions for building aBeowulf-type computer, including the physical elements that make up aclustered PC computing system, the software required (most of which isfreely available), and insights on how to organize the code to exploitparallelism. Supercomputing research—the goal of which is to make computers that are ever faster and more powerful—has been at the cutting edge of computer technology since the early 1960s. Until recently, research cost in the millions of dollars, and many of the companies that originally made supercomputers are now out of business.The early supercomputers used distributed computing and parallel processing to link processors together in a single machine, often called a mainframe. Exploiting the same technology, researchers are now using off-the-shelf PCs to produce computers with supercomputer performance. It is now possible to make a supercomputer for less than $40,000. Given this new affordability, a number of universities and research laboratories are experimenting with installing such Beowulf-type systems in their facilities.This how-to guide provides step-by-step instructions for building a Beowulf-type computer, including the physical elements that make up a clustered PC computing system, the software required (most of which is freely available), and insights on how to organize the code to exploit parallelism. The book also includes a list of potential pitfalls.



Parallel Computer Organization and Design

Author : Michel Dubois

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 561 pages

File Size : 45,61 MB

Release : 2012-08-30

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1139560344

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Teaching fundamental design concepts and the challenges of emerging technology, this textbook prepares students for a career designing the computer systems of the future. In-depth coverage of complexity, power, reliability and performance, coupled with treatment of parallelism at all levels, including ILP and TLP, provides the state-of-the-art training that students need. The whole gamut of parallel architecture design options is explained, from core microarchitecture to chip multiprocessors to large-scale multiprocessor systems. All the chapters are self-contained, yet concise enough that the material can be taught in a single semester, making it perfect for use in senior undergraduate and graduate computer architecture courses. The book is also teeming with practical examples to aid the learning process, showing concrete applications of definitions. With simple models and codes used throughout, all material is made open to a broad range of computer engineering/science students with only a basic knowledge of hardware and software.