Vol. 1 -- High Performance Cluster Computing: Architectures and  Systems,  Rajkumar Buyya (editor), ISBN 0-13-013784-7, Prentice Hall PTR, NJ, USA, 1999.

• Preface (pdf)
• Table of Contents (pdf), (html brief contents)
• Sample Chapter (pdf)
• Contributing Authors (pdf)
• Errata

Vol. 2 -- High Performance Cluster Computing: Programming and Applications, Rajkumar Buyya (editor), ISBN 0-13-013785-5, Prentice Hall PTR, NJ, USA, 1999.

• Preface (pdf)
• Table of Contents (pdf), (html brief contents)
• Sample Chapter (pdf)
• Contributing Authors (pdf)
• Errata

Some Sources

In News!

• review in PDCP Journal
• The review on the book by Prof. Patnaik appeared in IEEE Concurrency, Jan.-March 2000.
• Another review on the book appeared in Microelectronics Reliability, Volume 40, Issue 1, 2000.
• The Age, an Australian News Paper featured the book
• Harnessing a global computer grid

Clustering Resources

Teaching Guidelines

Cluster Computing in the Classroom

Related Cluster Books

• books on cluster architecture, programming, deployement,...

International Forum

• IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing

Presentation Slides

• Book Chapters (available for chapters 1, 4, 7, 9, 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
• High Performance Cluser Computing (used in tutorials presented at many international conferences and IEEE chapters)
• Single System Image
• Parallel Processing on Linux Clusters
• Java Programming
• Multithreading/Multithreaded Programming
• Introduction to Client/Server Computing
• Cluster-based Infrastructure for E-Commerce!
• Scalable Computing from Clusters to Computational Power Grids
• Computational Grids and Computional Economy
• Parallel Systems and Clusters: Course page

Free Software

• User Level/Light Weight Communication Protocols
Active Messages (AM)
Genoa Active Message MAchine (GAMMA)
U-net
Trapeze: gigabit-per-second TCP
Fast Messages (FM)
Basic Interface for Parallelism (BIP)
Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) Initiative, Berkeley Implementation and MyVIA from Tsinghua Univ.
• Infiniband Initiative: SAN and I/O
• PVM
• pvmsync
• MPI
• LAM/MPI
• Paradyn- parallel performance tools
• JMPF: A Message Passing Framework for Cluster Computing in Java
• Jcluster: A Java-based message-passing environment
• PLUS: MPI&PVM integration
• WMPI (MPI for NT cluster)
• SCore library, the SCore-D user-level parallel operating system and MPC++ parallel programming language and its runtime
• Click, a language for multithreaded parallel programming
• Profiler (Upshot/Nupshot)
• NetSolve
• OpenMP
• BSP Library
• Distributed Shared Memory (DSM)
• Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS)
• Parallel Workload Archive
• Parallel I/O Archive
• Logical Volume Manager for Linux
• Transparent Process Migration
• Cluster/Job/Resource Management Systems
  • Liba Scheduler
  • Maui Scheduler
  • Queue: Load-balancing and local rsh replacement system
  • Condor
  • PBS (Portable Batch System)
  • SGE (Sun Grid Engine)
  • LSF (Load Sharing Facility)
  • CCS: Computing Center Software
  • CoCheck
  • XYALB: load balancing on small clusters
• Distributed Inter-Process Communication (DIPC)
• Cluster Shell
• ClusterIt
• Parallelisation Agent
• Secure Shell (SSH)
• Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
• Linux Virtual Web Server
• Cluster Administration
Alert
SCMS
PARMON
bWatch
Cluster node Cloning and multi-boot instalation (check dolly proram)
FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) of Linux on Clusters
Linux Utility for cluster Install (LUI)
• Ptool: persistent object manager
• Legion: Worldwide virtual computer
• Compute Power Market
• Scientific Algorithms, Libraries and Applications
Parallelised Dijkstra and Floyd algorithm for Shortest Path Problem (in PVM and MPI)
Paralel Multipole Tree Algorithm (PMTA) (on PVM)
Ray Tracing (for PVM)
Ray Tracing (for MPI)
Linear Algebra
Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) library
Parallel Mathematical Library
PETSc (Partial Differential Equations Toolkit)
Cactus, a parallel code for solving systems of partial differential equations
Numerical solution of partial differential equations
MIT Photonic-Bands: electromagnetic eigenmodes and dispersion relations of arbitrary dielectric structures
Unstructured Mesh Computation
Scalable Molecular Dynamics
PAPIA: Parallel Protein Information Analysis system
Dynamics Algorithm for NMR Applications>
Cellular Microphysiology (Study of Brain Cell Activity)
The Explicit Planetary Isentropic Coordinate (EPIC) Atmospheric Model
Weather Modeling
Multigrid solver for Finite Element Analysis
Scalable Display Wall
• Produced by Groups
RWCP Japan Cluster Software (for Unix)
Beowulf  (for Linux)
Berkeley NOW (for Solaris)
Sun HPC ClusterTools, Sun Grid Engine
HPVM (for Windows NT)
MOSIX (for Linux)
ClumpOS - A CD-based Linux/MOSIX mini-distribution
High-Availability Linux Project
Gardens Project
MultiCluster Project
ANL MCS Software (MPI, I/O, Globus, profilers,..)
Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS) and Software for programming DAS
NPACI Rocks Cluster Software
Aggregate - PAPERS hardware/software
• Debian Cluster Components
• Beowulf-Underground Current Software
• Cluster Benchmarks
• Special Karlsruher MPI Benchmark
• Benchmarks (Linux clusters)
• National HPCC Software Exchange and Software Catalog
Parallel Tools Libray and Software Catalog
HPC-Netlib mathematical software and Software Catalog
Chemistry Software and Software Catalog
• OSCAR: Open Source Cluster Application Resource
• Sandia C-Plant Software
• Nimrod-G Grid Resource Broker and Computational Economy
• GridSim toolkit for Simulation of Application Scheduling
• Gridbus: Toolkit for service-oriented cluster and grid computing

Commercial Software

• Scyld Beowulf Scalable Computing: Download Free or Purchase CD
• C-DAC HPCC Software for Clusters
• Sun HPC ClusterTools, Solaris-MC, Sun Grid Engine
• IBM cJVM: A Cluster-Aware Java Virtual Machine
• UnixWare
• OpenVMS Clustesr
• enFuzion (a commercial version of Nimrod)
• Dynamite
• MPI Software Technology
• Total View Debugger
• PARMON: A Portable and Scalable Monitoring System for Clusters
• Xtreme Machines
• SGI Open Source Project, Performance Co-Pilot
• BERT 77: Automatic and Efficient Parallelizer for FORTRAN (BERT Lite is free)
• Scali Software Platform(SSP)
• Para Station
• Microsoft
• Atipa Turnkey Cluster solutions
• Linux Networx Cluster solutions
• CriticalSoftware's Windows MPI (WMPI) and PaTeNT (Parallel Tools for NT clusters)
• IBM Cluster Starter Kit
• RackSaver Clusters
• Tsunami Research Hive computing

Documentation

• TFCC Education Page
• SCL Cluster Cookbook
• Online Proceedings of CC-TEA'99
• Online Proceedings of CC-TEA 2000
• Linux parallel procesing HOW to ?
• Beowulf-Underground Current Documentation
• ComputerWorld QuickStudy
• Linux-based Cluster Computing
• LinuxWorld
• Windows Clusters Resource Centre
• Clustering Linux/NT PC machines
• AppleSeed: Clustering Apple Macintosh machines
• Clustering for NT
• Taking parallel processing to a new level
• Home Supercomputing with Linux
• Network Computing Working Notes
• Linux Enterprise Computing
• Linux MP and Clustering
• Eniac 2000
• Cluster Quick Start
• How to Build a Pile of PCs Supercomputer
• Beowulf HOWTO
• Bibliography of DSM Systems
• Cluster Computing Review
• Annual Review of Scalable Computing
• Parallel/Distributed Simulation
• HP Labs Storage Systems Program (public papers)
• A High-Availability Cluster for Linux
• A Modern Taxonomy of High Availability
• A Guide to Network Programming
• Internet Technologies
• Build your own Java-based supercomputer
• High-Performance Networking Unleashed
• HPC: Are we just getting wrong answers faster ?

Annoucements

• Mass Storage and Parallel I/O Book
• Top(500)Clusters Project
• Grid Computing Info Centre
• Cluster Computing in Australia
• Beowulf-Underground Current Annoucements
• TFCC News Letter
• IEEE DS Online--Cluster Computing
• DPC News Letter
• IEEE Intl. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2001)
• IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
• IEEE Task Force Cluster Computing Annual Conference

Related Links

• Sourceforge.net Clustering Foundry
• Microprocessors
• CPU Info Center
• Computer Architecture
• Scientific Applications on Linux
• Beowulf Clusters for Chemists
• Operating Systems
• Compilers
• Programming Languages
• Very Best Linux Sites
• TurboCluster Server
• EE/CS Mother Sites
• CRPC Research Projects and Software
• Advanced Cluster Computing Consortium
• Parallel Tools Consortium
• Dynamic PVM
• Computational Plant (CPlant )Cluster
• Distributed Systems Tools
• Genetic Programming
• Problem Solving Environments (PSEs)
• ReactOS
• VMWare for Linux: Run Windows applications like MS office on Linux
• IEEE ParaScope
• Human Genome Project
• The Virtual Museum of Computing
• Success Story: Linux gushes savings for oil giant (Clusters replaced IBM systems)
• Clusters power online book sales
• Human Genome Data processing on Linux Clusters
• InterPlaNetary Internet
• Simputer: a low cost portable alternative to PCs.
• Cray's Imaginary Tour of a Biological Computer
• IBM Journal of Research and Development
• Human Networking on the Network (by Phil Agre, UCLA)
• Advice on Research and Writing
• Cluster Computing in MIS and business school
• Cluster World Magazine

Adoption (only known links!)

If you know any site providing cluster computing resources (like free software) for which I can give a link, please let me know. Also feel free to contact me for any other information concerning the book:

Rajkumar Buyya The Book and Information Centre Editor!

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