RUMON Cluster Integrated Monitoring Solutions

 Present Standings

The first meeting about the decisions and objectives regarding the project. (24 Jan 2001)

During the first phase of our project, various tasks were distributed among the members. RMI, JNI, Network Programming and Parallel algorithms are some of them. In a limited period of six weeks many members of  the team delivered their presentations on various topics, concerning the cluster computing project. Following are the reports of their presentations.

1. Evolution of Computers (A Brief History) - Mr. Mubeen Ahmed
2. Preliminary Cluster Report - Mr. Jawwad Mahmood (5 Feb 2000)
3. Network Configuration of Rumi - Mr. Rizwan Ahmed (Feb 2001)
4. Network Programming in JAVA - Mr. Ather Shahbaz & Mr. Farhan Bukhari (14 May 2001)
5. Parallel Algorithms, in Focus 'Fox's Algorithm' - Mr. Salman Khalid (14 May 2001)

A Comprehensive book on Beowulf styled cluster computing by Robert G. Brown, Physics Department, Duke University. (October 18, 2000)

Here are some documents on the cluster:

• Clustering for Research and Production Scale, Parallel and Distributed Computing - Dr. Anthony Skjellum.
• Comparative Performance of a Commodity Alpha Cluster running Linux and Windows NT - David Lancaster, Kenji Takeda
• Comparing the communication performance and scalability of a Linux and a NT Cluster of PC's - Luecke, Raffin, Coyle.
• The Gateway System: Uniform Web Based Access to Remote Resources - Fox, Haupt, Youn.
• Java Support for Fox's Algorithms - Department of Computer Science, Vrije University, Netherlands.
• Ajents: Towards an Environment for Parallel, Distributed and Mobile Java Applications - Matthew Izatt, Patrick Chan Department of Computer Science, York University.
• Practical Guidelines for Boosting Java Server Performance - Reinhard Klemm
• Performance Limitations of the Java Core Libraries - Allan Heydon, Marc Najork
• Interfacing Java to the Virtual Interface Architecture - Chi-Chao Chang and Thorsten von Eicken, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University.
• Object Serialization for Marshalling Data in a Java Interface to MPI - Bryan Carpenter, Geo rey Fox, Sung Hoon Ko and Sang Lim NPAC at Syracuse University.
• Analysis and Development of Java Grande Benchmarks - J.A. Mathew, P.D. Coddington and K.A. Hawick Advanced Computational Systems Cooperative Research Centre, Department of Computer Science, University of Adelaide.
• Efficient Mapping of Software System Traces to Architectural Views - Robert J. Walker, Gail C. Murphy, Jeffrey Steinbok, and Martin P. Robillard Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia.
• Design and Implementation of a Resource Sharing System as an Extension to a Personal Computer Operating System Rita C. Summers. Mostafa Ehmhimi. John Xl. 3Iarherg. and tiri Zernik IBM Scientific Canter, Los angles.
• IBM Book on Java Performance.

Further references on cluster computing can be found here.

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