The Xcpu Cluster Management Framework (2008)
Latchesar Ionkov, Ron Minnich, Andrey Mirtchovski
This paper describes the organization and implementation of the Xcpu cluster management framework currently in use at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Xcpu is used to start, monitor and control...
Production Linux Clusters (2007)
Sc Tutorial November, Bill Saphir, Bill Saphir, Patrick Bozeman, Patrick Bozeman, Eric Roman, ...
Introduction 2 SC99 Tutorial Page 3 Premise/Goal 1. Clusters are cheap. 2. People are expensive. 3. Today's clusters are fairly good as personal supercomputers. 4. Today's clusters are...
Abstract. A private name space is a file system name space that is accessible only to a single process and its direct descendants. Private name spaces were originally developed for the Plan 9...
Grave Robbers from Outer Space Using 9P2000 under Linux (2005)
Eric Van Hensbergen, Ron Minnich
This paper describes the implementation and use of the Plan 9 distributed resource protocol 9P under the Linux 2.6 operating system. The use of the 9P protocol along with the recent addition of...
Monte carlo radiative heat transfer simulation on a reconfigurable computer (2004)
Maya Gokhale, Janette Frigo, Christine Ahrens, Ron Minnich
Abstract. Recently, the appearance of very large (3 – 10M gate) FPGAs with embedded arithmetic units has opened the door to the possibility of floating point computation on these devices. While...
Kepner, Jeremy, Gokhale, Maya, Minnich, Ron, Marks, Aaron, DeGood, John
Astronomers are increasingly using Massively Parallel Network of Workstations (MP-NOW) to address their most challenging computing problems. Fully exploiting these systems is made more difficult as...
V9fs: A private name space system for unix and its uses for distributed and cluster computing (1999)
Imagine one day, went to work that the technology of programming had suddenly regressed: you can only use global variables, and in fact, all the names and values of all the variables of all the...
9.2.u is a private name space which runs in user mode on Linux, FreeBSD, and other Unix systems. This report describes the structure of the software and its applications. Arpa Contract #...
9.2.u: A user-mode private name space system for unix (1998)
Abstract. As part of our metacomputing research we have built a private name space system for Unix. The current system runs completely in user mode, requiring no kernel changes of any kind. The name...