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
  • Clustermatic
    from Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • MOSIX
    • MOSIX
    • openMosix
    • MosixView
    • clump/os
      from Pachyderm Software
  • Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR)
    from the Open Cluster Group
  • Rocks
    from the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI)
  • Scalable Cluster Environment
    from the Department of Computer Engineering at Kasetsart University
  • Scyld Beowulf Cluster Operating System
    from Scyld Computing Corporation
  • Turbolinux EnFuzion^TM
    from Turbolinux
• Tools Not Listed Above
  These tools may be included in some Cluster Computing Environments but are often developed and available independently.
  • BProc: Beowulf Distributed Process Space
  • LinuxBIOS
    from Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Parallel Virtual File System
    from 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 Beowulfery
    by 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 MPI
    by 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
  • Avalon
    at Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Loki
    at Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Stone SouperComputer
    at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Other Extreme Linux Resources

• Extreme Linux Column
  in 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 Supplement
  to Sys Admin