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Memory coherence in shared virtual memory systems
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PVM: a framework for parallel distributed computing
Concurrency: Practice and Experience
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Orca: A Language for Parallel Programming of Distributed Systems
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Active messages: a mechanism for integrated communication and computation
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Limits to low-latency communication on high-speed networks
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High-speed switch scheduling for local-area networks
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
An efficient block-oriented approach to parallel sparse Cholesky factorization
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Experiences with a high-speed network adaptor: a software perspective
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Virtual memory mapped network interface for the SHRIMP multicomputer
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The SPLASH-2 programs: characterization and methodological considerations
ISCA '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
U-Net: a user-level network interface for parallel and distributed computing
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Performing remote operations efficiently on a local computer network
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A Case for NOW (Networks of Workstations)
IEEE Micro
Tempest: a substrate for portable parallel programs
COMPCON '95 Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Computer Society International Conference
TreadMarks: distributed shared memory on standard workstations and operating systems
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OSDI '94 Proceedings of the 1st USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
ASHs: Application-specific handlers for high-performance messaging
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ASHs: application-specific handlers for high-performance messaging
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Efficient user-space protocol implementations with QoS guarantees using real-time upcalls
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Memory Channel Network for PCI
IEEE Micro
Using the Memory Channel Network
IEEE Micro
Digital's clusters and scientific parallel applications
COMPCON '96 Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Computer Conference
Overview of memory channel network for PCI
COMPCON '96 Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Computer Conference
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k Daniel J. Scalesk Michael Burrows, and Chandramohan A. ThekkathTechnology trends make it attractive to use workstations connected by a local area network as a multicomputing platform for parallel applications. Achieving acceptable application performance in such a workstation cluster using commodity components requires good support from system software and network hardware. This paper describes our experience with parallel programming in a workstation cluster and the implications for operating systems and network adaptor design. Our cluster consists entirely of commercially available hardware: 24 Alpha workstations connected by a 155 Mbits/s AN2 ATM network. We present results from running several parallel applications on this cluster. Our cluster demonstrates both excellent low-level communication performance and good overall application performance that compares favorably with dedicated multicomputers like the IBM SP2.