Some Related NOW / Cluster Research

Projects

• Berkeley NOW (Culler, Anderson, Patterson)
• Concurrent Systems Architecture Group (CSAG) (Chien)
• U-Net: A User-Level Network Interface Architecture (von Eicken)
• PDOS, Fugu, Multiscale
• Nectar (Steenkiste)
• SNAP (Gray)
• ServerNet (Horst)
• TMC GlobalWorks
• The ParaPC / ParaStation, Karlsruhe
• The SHRIMP Project (Li)
• Stanford FLASH Project (Horowitz)
• Wisconsin COW (Wood, Hill)
• Miss. State (Skjellum)

Communication Layers

• Berkeley Active Messages (Culler)
• Illinois Fast Messages (FM) (Chien)
• Cornell Active Messages (von Eicken)
• RWC Massively Parallel Software Laboratory

Cluster Interconnects

• Myrinet
• ServerNet
• SCI
• DEC Memory Channel
• IBM SP-2
• MINI (Ron Minnich, Dan Burns, and Frank Hady. The Memory-Integrated Network Interface. IEEE Micro, 15(1):11-20, February 1995.)
• S3-mp, Nowatzyk

Operating System Support

• GLUnix (Anderson)
• Loadsharing Facility
• SPIN (Bershad)
• Washington Distributed Computing (Levy)
• Solaris MC (Kahlidi)
• Mosix
• Condor
• Codine
• MIT Exokernel Operating System
• Hive
• OpenVMS Clusters

• Network RAM: Serverless Network Memory Service
• Network Shared Memory

File Systems

• xFS: Serverless Network File Service

Languages

• Cilk

Applications

• U. C. Berkeley Inktomi Research Prototype
• HOTBOT

Distributed Shared Virtual Memory

• CRL
• KOAN
• Locust
• Mirage
• CDS
• Quarks
• Midway
• Treadmarks
• Munin
• Simple COMA
• Shasta (Dan Scales, Kourosh Gharachorloo, and Chandu Thekkath)

Wide-area Computing

• Legion
• NetSolve
• Globus
• UCB NOW WebFS and WebFS
• UCSB web file system
• UCSB computer resource trading

Conferences

• HPDC 95