SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface

1. Message Passing Libraries

   1. Shared Memory Programming Models and Runtime Mechanisms

      • Hermann Hellwagner, Alexander Reinefeld

      Pages 263-265

2. Shared Memory Programming Models and Runtime Mechanisms

   1. Shared Memory vs Message Passing on SCI: A Case Study Using Split-C

      • Max Ibel, Michael Schmitt, Klaus Schauser, Anurag Acharya

      Pages 267-280

   2. A Shared Memory Programming Interface for SCI Clusters

      • Marcus Dormanns, Karsten Scholtyssik, Thomas Bemmerl

      Pages 281-290

   3. True Shared Memory Programming on SCI-based Clusters

      • Martin Schulz

      Pages 291-311

   4. Implementing a File System Interface to SCI

      • P. T. Koch, J. S. Hansen, E. Cecchet, X. Rousset de Pina

      Pages 313-331

   5. Programming SCI Clusters Using Parallel CORBA Objects

      • Thierry Priol, Christophe René, Guillaume Alléon

      Pages 333-348

   6. The MuSE Runtime System for SCI Clusters: A Flexible Combination of On-Stack Execution and Work Stealing

      • Markus Leberecht

      Pages 349-364

   7. Benchmark Results and Application Experiences

      • Hermann Hellwagner, Alexander Reinefeld

      Pages 365-366

3. Benchmark Results and Application Experiences

   1. Large-Scale SCI Clusters in Practice: Architecture and Performance

      • Jens Simon, Alexander Reinefeld, Oliver Heinz

      Pages 367-381

   2. Shared Memory Parallelization of the GROMOS96 Molecular Dynamics Code

      • Marcus Dormanns

      Pages 383-396

   3. SCI Prototyping for the Second Level Trigger System of the ATLAS Experiment

      • A. Belias, A. Bogaerts, D. Botterill, J. Dawson, E. Denes, F. Giacomini et al.

      Pages 397-414

   4. Tools for SCI Clusters

      • Hermann Hellwagner, Alexander Reinefeld

      Pages 415-415

4. Tools for SCI Clusters

   1. SCI Monitoring Hardware and Software: Supporting Performance Evaluation and Debugging

      • Wolfgang Karl, Markus Leberecht, Michael Oberhuber

      Pages 417-432

   2. Monitoring SCI Clusters

      • Matthias Maier-Stahel, Roger Butenuth, Hans-Ulrich Heiss

      Pages 433-441

   3. Multi-User System Management on SCI Clusters

      • Matthias Brune, Axel Keller, Alexander Reinefeld

      Pages 443-461

   4. Perspectives

      • Hermann Hellwagner, Alexander Reinefeld

      Pages 463-463

5. Perspectives

   1. Industrial Takeup of SCI and Future Developments

      • David B. Gustavson

      Pages 465-480

6. Back Matter

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Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) is an innovative interconnect standard (ANSI/IEEE Std 1596-1992) addressing the high-performance computing and networking domain. This book describes in depth one specific application of SCI: its use as a high-speed interconnection network (often called a system area network, SAN) for compute clusters built from commodity workstation nodes. The editors and authors, coming from both academia and industry, have been instrumental in the SCI standardization process, the development and deployment of SCI adapter cards, switches, fully integrated clusters, and software systems, and are closely involved in various research projects on this important interconnect. This thoroughly cross-reviewed state-of-the-art survey covers the complete hardware/software spectrum of SCI clusters, from the major concepts of SCI, through SCI hardware, networking, and low-level software issues, various programming models and environments, up to tools and application experiences.

• CORBA
• Hardware
• Interface
• Linux
• Myrinet
• Scala
• TCP/IP
• cluster
• cluster computing
• design
• development
• interconnection networks
• programming
• software
• structured analysis

• Department of Business Informatics & Application Systems, Department of Information Technology, University Klagenfurt, Austria

  Hermann Hellwagner

• Zuse Institute Berlin,  

  Alexander Reinefeld

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