Note: This page last had any major revisions done circa 1996. This means that for current usage it is almost completely useless (although more links have survived here than I would have thought). However it is an interesting walk down memory lane (at least for me :).

Netstation Project

The goal of this project is to demonstrate that gigabit LANs can effectively replace the system bus in conventional workstations. By rearchitecting around a network, processors and device resources all reside in cyberspace.

Myricom

mission of providing an inexpensive high-speed network to allow a fleet of computers to work together. Myricom's inexpensive high-speed LAN is called "Myrinet". Myrinet is based on Mosaic technology developed at Caltech and on a research network called "ATOMIC", developed at USC/ISI.

ATOMIC-2

The ATOMIC LAN is a 640-Mbps packet-switched LAN designed by ISI and CalTech. The ATOMIC project succeded in implementing a LAN prototype, including host interfaces and switches.
See also :

• The Atomic Workstation Cluster Page
• High-Performance Protocols

The Berkeley NOW project

The Berkeley NOW project is building system support for using a network of workstations (NOW) to act as a distributed supercomputer on a building-wide scale. Because of the volume production, commercial workstations today offer much better price/performance than the individual nodes of MPP's. In addition, switch-based networks such as ATM will provide cheap, high-bandwidth communication. This price/performance advantage is increased if the NOW can be used for both the tasks traditionally run on workstations and these large programs.

Berkley Claims they have implemented the worlds fastest search engine with NOW at Inktomi

U of Illinois Fast Messages Library 1.1

The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Computer Science Department has ported their Fast Messages Library 1.1 to Myrinet. They have also produced a version of of MPI to run on FM.

Wisconsin Wind Tunnel Project

The Wisconsin Wind Tunnel Project (WWT) is using a cluster of workstations as a base for their research on a new type of interface called "Tempest".

MPI ( Message Passing Interface) At Mississippi State

The Mississippi State Engineering Research Center and Department of Computer Science have been involved in the MPI standardization effort and continues to be involved. MPI stands for Message Passing Interface, a message passing standard officially unveiled in May 1994 by the MPI Forum. This contains pointers to the MPI standard, the MPI FAQ, and many other sources of MPI information.

Hebrew University Multicomputer Operating System

The Hebrew University Multicomputer Operating System (MOSIX ) project is building UNIX enhancements for using a Network of Workstations (NOW) to act as a scalable, resource-sharing multicomputer. In MOSIX, the kernel of BSD/OS was enhanced with dynamic load balancing and preemptive process migration, in order to share the CPU resources of a PC NOW. MO6, a 6-processors version of MOSIX is available on the Internet.

The Orca Parallel Programming Language

Orca is a language for parallel programming on distributed systems, based on the shared data-object model. This model is a simple and portable form of object-based distributed shared memory.

Parallel Database Technology

Parallel Database Activity at Northeast Parallel Architectures Center

Lots of good links

Other Related pages

High Performance Networks and Distributed Systems Archive

This server holds copies of some technical documents collected from sites all over the net, notices that may be of interest to this community, calls for papers and attendence at conferences and workshops and software packages and data sets. The bulk of this is based upon the older High Performance Networks and Distributed Systems Archive gopher server

List of Gigabit (and smaller) Routers