TY - BOOK AU - Buyya,Rajkumar TI - HIGH PERFORMANCE CLUSTER COMPUTING: architectures and systems, volume 1 SN - 0130137847 U1 - 004.3 PY - 1999/// CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Prentice Hall KW - High performance computing N1 - Preface. - I. Requirements and General Issues. 1. Cluster Computing at a Glance. 2.Cluster Setup and its Administration. 3. Constructing Scalable Services. 4. Dependable Clustered Computing. 5. Deploying a High Throughput Computing Cluster. 6. Performance Models and Simulation. 7. Metacomputing: Harnessing Informal Supercomputers. 8. Specifying Resources and Services in Metacomputing Systems. - II. Networking, Protocols, and I/O. 9. High Speed Networks. 10. Lightweight Messaging Systems. 11. Active Messages. 12. Xpress Transport Protocol. 13. Congestion Management in ATM Clusters. 14. Load Balancing Over Networks. 15. Multiple Path Communication. 16. Network RAM. 17.Distributed Shared Memory. 18. Parallel I/O for Clusters: Methodologies and Systems. 19. Software RAID and Parallel Filesystems. - III. Process Scheduling, Load Sharing, and Balancing. 20. Job and Resource Management Systems. 21. Scheduling Parallel Jobs on Clusters. 22. Load Sharing and Fault Tolerance Manager. 23. Parallel Program Scheduling Techniques. 24. Customized Dynamic Load Balancing. 25. Mapping and Scheduling on Heterogeneous Systems. - IV. Representative Cluster Systems. 26. Beowulf. 27. RWC PC Cluster II and SCore Cluster System Software. 28. COMPaS: A Pentium Pro PC-Based SMP Cluster. 29. The NanOS Cluster Operating System. 30. BSP-Based Adaptive Parallel Processing. 31. MARS : An Adaptive Parallel Programming Environment. 32. The Gardens Approach to Adaptive Parallel Computing. 33. The ParPar System : A Software MPP. 34. Pitt Parallel Computer. 35. The RS/6000 SP System : A Scalable Parallel Cluster. 36. A Acalable and Highly Available Clustered Web Server. - Index N2 - The book contains expert coverage of "commodity supercomputing" systems and architectures ; the role of Java ; new applications and algorithms ; and advanced techniques for enhancing availability throughput. High Performance Cluster Computing : Architectures and Systems : Volume 1 captures the remarkable breadth, depth, and power of the cluster computing revolution. - Back cover ER -