Network-Based Parallel Computing Communication, Architecture, and Applications

The remote enqueue operation on networks of workstations.- The HAL interconnect PCI card.- Implementing protected multi-user communication for Myrinet.- ECOLE: A configurable environment for a local optical network of workstations.- The design of a parallel programming system for a network of workstations: An object-oriented approach.- Remote subpaging across a fast network.- Improved functional imaging through network based parallel processing.- AutoMap and AutoLink tools for communicating complex and dynamic data-structures using MPI.- Analysis of a programmed backoff method for parallel processing on Ethernets.- Improving dynamic token-based distributed synchronization performance via optimistic broadcasting.- Fast barrier synchronization on shared fast Ethernet.- Parallel routing table computation for scalable IP routers.- A tool for the analysis of reconfiguration and routing algorithms in irregular networks.- Real-time traffic management on optical networks using dynamic control of cycle duration.- A comparative characterization of communication patterns in applications using MPI and shared memory on an IBM SP2.- Characterization of communication patterns in message-passing parallel scientific application programs.- Cross-platform analysis of fast messages for Myrinet.- Performance of a cluster of PCI based ultrasparc workstations interconnected with SCI.