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Graduate school advice from CMU
Graduate Study in the Computer Science: A Survival Manual
Advice on research and writing from CMU
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Advice for researchers and students
How to be a Winner?
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mindtools.com: A free skills training site.

Benchmarks

Parallel I/O Benchmarks

Job Applications

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Projects [ Back to Top]

Open Source Projects, from IBM Developerworks
The OceanStore Project, UC Berkeley
The Personal Terabyte Project, Georgia Institute of Technology
JavaPorts: An environment for distributed component-based processing on heterogeneous clusters, Northeastern University
Scheduling Issues on the Origin2000 in IRIX 6.5: Gang Scheduling, UIUC
Parallel I/O Archives
Fault-tolerant Real-time Systems (FORTS), University of Pittsburgh
SMART: Storage Management Algorithms, University of Maryland, College Park

Adaptive ComputingDynamic

Data Intensive Computing, (University of Maryland, College Park)
The Application-Level Scheduling (AppLeS) Project, (University of California, San Diego)
Efficient Self-Reconfiguration and Domain-Specific Mapping for High Performance Adaptive Computing, (University of Southern California)

Conferences [ Back to Top ]

Operating/Distributed Systems Conferences and Journals

Choosing a venue: conference or journal?

THE 2007 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL PROCESSING (ICPP-07)
Rankings of CS Journals
The ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) (Submission Deadline: March. 15, 2003)
The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (Submission Deadline: December 1, 2002)
International Parallel and Distribued Processing Symposium (IPDPS03) (Submission Deadline: October 4, 2002)
20th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems) (Submission Deadline: October 1, 2002
9th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA9)2003 (Submission Deadline: July 12, 2002)
Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation(OSDI '02) (Submission Deadline: May 17, 2002)
Supercomputing November 16-22, 2002 (Submission Deadline: APRIL 8, 2002)
ACM 14th Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA '02) August 11-13, 2002 (Submission Deadline: Feb. 27, 2002)
ACM 16th International Conference on Supercomputing June 22-26, 2002 (Submission Deadline: Feb. 15, 2002)
The 21st ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2002) (Submission Deadline: Feb. 3, 2002)
The 31st Annual International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2002) (Submission Deadline: Jan. 31, 2002)
Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) January 28-30, 2002 (Submission Deadline: July 20, 2001)
The 16th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS02) (Submission deadline: Dec. 14, 2001)
The International Conference on Dependable Systems and NetworksDSN-2002 (Submission Deadline: Nov. 19, 2001)
2nd IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2002) (Submission Deadline: Nov. 1, 2001)
The 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2002) (Submission Deadline: Oct. 26, 2001)
Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST2002) (Submission Deadline: July 20, 2001)
International Parallel and Distribued Processing Symposium (IPDPS02) (Submission Deadline: Sep. 28, 2001)
8th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture 2002
IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
Other Conference Lists:
- IEEE ParaScope
- Wisconsin Univ.
- Rice Univ.
- WorldSES
- The IEEE Computer Society Conference
- Hand Shake
the IEEE Computer Society:
- The Electronic Newsletter CS e-News
- Publications
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- Conference News
- Upcoming Conferences, Deadlines, Proceedings

Research Groups [ Back to Top ]

Grid Computing Laboratory (GCL), (Application level scheduling) University of California, San Diego
Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group, MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science
Berkeley NOW Project, University of California, Berkeley
Distributed Systems Laboratory, at University of Chicago. Grid middleware; Grid applications; data-intensive scientific computing.
Concurrent Systems Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles
Parallel and Distributed Systems Group, California Institute of Technology
Parallel Processing and Architectures Research Group, Northeastern University
Distributed Multimedia Computing Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin
- Laboratory for Experimental Software Systems, University of Texas at Austin
- Center for Distributed and Mobile Computing, University of Cincinnati
- PARASOL Algorithms Group, Texas A&M University
- High-performance Computing and Simulation, University of Florida
- Parallel Systems Lab, The Hebrew University
- DEpendable, Embedded and Distributed Systems, Chalmers University of Technology
- Storage System Program in HPL
- Storage Systems in IBM
- Data Migration Project at U. of Washington

People [ Back to Top ]

Prof. Dharma P. Agrawal University of Cincinnati
Prof. Laxmi N. Bhuyan University of California, Riverside
Prof. David A. Bader University of New Mexico
Prof. Keshav Pingali Cornell University
Dr. Lorenzo Alvisi University of Texas at Austin, Distributed Computing, with a special emphasis on Fault-Tolerance
Dr. Nancy Amato Texas A&M University, motion planning, computational geometry, and high-performance computing
Dr. Dror Feitelson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Cluster Computing, Job Scheduling, Parallel I/O
Prof. Guang R. Gao University of Delaware, Computer Architecture, Compilers, Parallel and Distributed Systems, and Parallel Algorithms
Prof. Mark Heinrich Cornell University, active memory and I/O subsystems, computer architectures, scalable cache coherence protocols,
Prof. Joel Saltz,, University of Maryland, College Park, High Performance Multidimensional Databases, High Performance I/O
Prof. Dr. Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zentrum, high performance eager replication protocols
Dr. Samir Khuller, University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. Leana Golubchik, University of Maryland, College Park, Computer systems modeling, QoS-oriented design of large-scale storage systems
Prof. Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Akamai, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Communication, Wireless networks, communication protocols.
Dr. Govindarasu Manimaran, Iowa State University, Real-time Systems, QoS Routing and Multicasting, Internet QoS, Real-time scheduling

References [ Back to Top ]

UNIX Systems

MPI

Basics of MPI Programming Lab Exercises

Papers [ Back to Top ]

Distributed load balancing Resources

Distributed and Load Balancing Resources. (By rimon Barr)
IEEE Trans. on Computers, SPECIAL SECTION ON FAULT-TOLERANT EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 187-200, July 2000: Special Issue on Network-Based Storage Services,
Wide-area cooperative storage with CFS. abstract, PDF from
Parallel Real-Time Systems: Formal Specification. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC '97)
Integration of Tools for Parallel Real-Time Systems. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications 1999 Abstract
An Open Real-Time Environment for Parallel and Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ( ICDCS 2000) Abstract
A Study of Network Routers for Real-Time Parallel Computers. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS '95)
Scheduling hard-realtime parallel tasks onto the processor network with wrapped mesh topology. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications 1995. Abstract
A model and tools for supporting parallel real-time applications in Unix environments. In Proceedings of the Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium 1995. Abstract
Scheduling Algorithms For High-Level Synthesis
Static scheduling algorithms for allocating directed task graphs to multiprocessors (ACM Survey Paper)
Fault-tolerant scheduling Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing, 1994
Gang Scheduling with Memory Considerations. In 14th Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symp., pp. 109-114, May 2000.
A Task Duplication Based Scheduling Algorithm for Heterogeneous Systems (IPDPS'00)
Scheduling for Parallel Systems
Cluster Computing: A Survey and Tutorial

I/O and File Systems

Job Scheduling that Minimizes Network Contention Due to Both Communication and I/O (IPDPS'00)
Speed vs. Accuracy in Simulation for I/O-intensive Applications (IPDPS'00)
High Performance Mass Storage and Parallel I/O (Book)
SCSI & IDE: Overview and comparison
T. E. Anderson, D. E. Culler, D. A. Patterson, and the NOW Team, "A Case for NOW(Networks of Workstations)", IEEE Micro, Feb, 1995.
T. E. Anderson, M. D. Dahlin, J. M. Neefe, D. A. Patterson, D. S. Roselli, and R. Y. Wang, "Serverless Network File Systems," the 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Dec. 1995, and the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 1996.
Recovery in the Calypso File System, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (to appear in 1996)
Evaluations of Design Alternatives for a Cluster File System, USENIX '95 Conference
Distributed Token Managenment in Calypso File System, IEEE Symp. on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Oct '94, Dallas
Server Recovery Using Naturally Replicated State: A Case Study , Intl. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), May '95, Vancouver
The conference paper "A Cost-Effective, High-Bandwidth Storage Architecture," Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems.
CMU SCS technical report "A Case for Network-Attached Secure Disks" CMU-CS-96-142, September 1996
CMU SCS technical report version of "Filesystems for Network-Attached Secure Disks," CMU-CS-97-118, 1997.
The Global File System, Proceedings of the Fifth NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies , September 17-19, 1996, College Park, MD.
The Design and Performance of a Shared Disk File System for IRIX, Proceedings of the Sixth NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, March 23-26, 1998, College Park, MD.
Shared File Systems and Fibre Channel, Proceedings of the Sixth NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, March 23-26, 1998, College Park, MD

Tools [ Back to Top ]

Software [ Back to Top ]

xbox: a sandbox for untrusted X applications. It has a small footprint and is reasonably efficient. It is intended to be used in conjunction with a syscall-level confining box such as Janus (from UC Berkeley) or mapbox (from UC Santa Barbara). Currently, runs on Solaris 5.6.
Parallel I/O-intensive applications. Currently, source for one application, Sparse Cholesky factorization, is available.
sml2c. A portable implementation of SML with call/cc, threads and signals (uses C as the target language)
CParaOPS5. A portable parallel OPS5 implementation (uses C as the target language). Manual

Traces

Traces containing availability information for workstation-pools. The periods of availability have been identified. These traces were used to drive the experiments described in my paper in SIGMETRICS'97.
Traces from seven parallel I/O-intensive applications. The application suite includes DB2, a datamining application for retail data, a parallel web server, parallel text search, Titan (satellite database), LU factorization and Sparse Cholesky factorization.

Updated on 10/25/2012