• High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, OpenMosix, and MPI (1)
• Table of Contents (2)
• Copyright (5)
• Preface (6)
  • Audience (8)
  • Organization (9)
  • Conventions (11)
  • How to Contact Us (12)
  • Using Code Examples (13)
  • Acknowledgments (14)
• Part I: An Introduction to Clusters (16)
  • Chapter 1. Cluster Architecture (17)
    • 1.1 Modern Computing and the Role of Clusters (18)
    • 1.2 Types of Clusters (25)
    • 1.3 Distributed Computing and Clusters (26)
    • 1.4 Limitations (28)
    • 1.5 My Biases (31)
  • Chapter 2. Cluster Planning (32)
    • 2.1 Design Steps (33)
    • 2.2 Determining Your Cluster's Mission (34)
    • 2.3 Architecture and Cluster Software (37)
    • 2.4 Cluster Kits (39)
    • 2.5 CD-ROM-Based Clusters (42)
    • 2.6 Benchmarks (44)
  • Chapter 3. Cluster Hardware (46)
    • 3.1 Design Decisions (47)
    • 3.2 Environment (54)
  • Chapter 4. Linux for Clusters (58)
    • 4.1 Installing Linux (59)
    • 4.2 Configuring Services (62)
    • 4.3 Cluster Security (74)
• Part II: Getting Started Quickly (76)
  • Chapter 5. openMosix (77)
    • 5.1 What Is openMosix? (78)
    • 5.2 How openMosix Works (79)
    • 5.3 Selecting an Installation Approach (81)
    • 5.4 Installing a Precompiled Kernel (82)
    • 5.5 Using openMosix (87)
    • 5.6 Recompiling the Kernel (94)
    • 5.7 Is openMosix Right for You? (99)
  • Chapter 6. OSCAR (100)
    • 6.1 Why OSCAR? (101)
    • 6.2 What's in OSCAR (102)
    • 6.3 Installing OSCAR (106)
    • 6.4 Security and OSCAR (129)
    • 6.5 Using switcher (132)
    • 6.6 Using LAM/MPI with OSCAR (134)
  • Chapter 7. Rocks (136)
    • 7.1 Installing Rocks (137)
    • 7.2 Managing Rocks (147)
    • 7.3 Using MPICH with Rocks (152)
• Part III: Building Custom Clusters (154)
  • Chapter 8. Cloning Systems (155)
    • 8.1 Configuring Systems (156)
    • 8.2 Automating Installations (160)
    • 8.3 Notes for OSCAR and Rocks Users (183)
  • Chapter 9. Programming Software (184)
    • 9.1 Programming Languages (185)
    • 9.2 Selecting a Library (186)
    • 9.3 LAM/MPI (188)
    • 9.4 MPICH (195)
    • 9.5 Other Programming Software (201)
    • 9.6 Notes for OSCAR Users (204)
    • 9.7 Notes for Rocks Users (206)
  • Chapter 10. Management Software (207)
    • 10.1 C3 (208)
    • 10.2 Ganglia (215)
    • 10.3 Notes for OSCAR and Rocks Users (222)
  • Chapter 11. Scheduling Software (223)
    • 11.1 OpenPBS (224)
    • 11.2 Notes for OSCAR and Rocks Users (235)
  • Chapter 12. Parallel Filesystems (236)
    • 12.1 PVFS (239)
    • 12.2 Using PVFS (251)
    • 12.3 Notes for OSCAR and Rocks Users (253)
• Part IV: Cluster Programming (254)
  • Chapter 13. Getting Started with MPI (255)
    • 13.1 MPI (256)
    • 13.2 A Simple Problem (260)
    • 13.3 An MPI Solution (265)
    • 13.4 I/O with MPI (275)
    • 13.5 Broadcast Communications (279)
  • Chapter 14. Additional MPI Features (283)
    • 14.1 More on Point-to-Point Communication (284)
    • 14.2 More on Collective Communication (287)
    • 14.3 Managing Communicators (292)
    • 14.4 Packaging Data (298)
  • Chapter 15. Designing Parallel Programs (304)
    • 15.1 Overview (305)
    • 15.2 Problem Decomposition (306)
    • 15.3 Mapping Tasks to Processors (310)
    • 15.4 Other Considerations (316)
  • Chapter 16. Debugging Parallel Programs (324)
    • 16.1 Debugging and Parallel Programs (325)
    • 16.2 Avoiding Problems (326)
    • 16.3 Programming Tools (327)
    • 16.4 Rereading Code (329)
    • 16.5 Tracing with printf (332)
    • 16.6 Symbolic Debuggers (334)
    • 16.7 Using gdb and ddd with MPI (343)
    • 16.8 Notes for OSCAR and Rocks Users (347)
  • Chapter 17. Profiling Parallel Programs (348)
    • 17.1 Why Profile? (349)
    • 17.2 Writing and Optimizing Code (351)
    • 17.3 Timing Complete Programs (352)
    • 17.4 Timing C Code Segments (354)
    • 17.5 Profilers (359)
    • 17.6 MPE (370)
    • 17.7 Customized MPE Logging (377)
    • 17.8 Notes for OSCAR and Rocks Users (382)
• Part V: Appendix (383)
  • Appendix A. References (384)
    • A.1 Books (385)
    • A.2 URLs (388)
• Colophon (393)
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