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- beowulf
- See https://www.beowulf.org
and links thereupon for a full description of the beowulf project,
access to the beowulf mailing list, and more.
- Amdahl
- Amdahl's law was first formulated by Gene
Amdahl (working for IBM at the time) in 1967. It (and many other
details of interest to a beowulf designer or parallel program designer)
is discussed in detail in the following three works, among many others.
- Amalsi
- G. S. Amalsi and A. Gottlieb, Highly Parallel Computing (2nd edition), Benjamin/Cummings, 1994.
- Foster
- I. Foster, Designing and Building Parallel
Programs, Addison-Wesley, 1995. Also see the online version of the
book at Argonne National Labs, https://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/dbpp/
- Kumar
- V. Kumar, A. Grama, A. Gupta, and G. Karypis,
Introduction to Parallel Computing, Design and Analysis of
Algorithms, Benjamin/Cummings, 1994.
- lmbench
- A microbenchmark toolset developed by Larry
McVoy and Carl Staelin of Bitmover, Incorporated. GPL plus special
restrictions. See https://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/.
- netperf
- A network performance microbenchmark suite
developed under the auspices of the Hewlett-Packard company. It was
written by a number of people, starting with Rick Jones. Non-GPL open
source license. See https://www.netperf.org/.
- cpu-rate
- A crude tool for measuring ``bogomflops''
written by Robert G. Brown and adapted for this paper. GPL. See
https://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma.
- Eden
- The ``Eden'' beowulf consists of lucifer,
abel, adam, eve, and sometimes caine and lilith. It lives in my home
office and is used for prototyping and development.
- profiling
- Robert G. Brown, The Beowulf Design:
COTS Parallel Clusters and Supercomputers, tutorial presented for the
Extreme Linux Track at the 1999 Linux Expo in Raleigh, NC. Linked to
https://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma,
along with several other
introductory papers and tools of interest to beowulf developers.
- ATLAS
- Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Systems,
developed by Jack Dongarra, et. al. at the Innovative Computing
Laboratory of the University of Tennessee. Non-GPL open source license.
See https://www.netlib.org/atlas.
Robert G. Brown
2000-08-28