SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface: Architecture and Software for High-Performance Compute Clusters
Hermann Hellwagner, Alexander Reinefeld · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1999
SCI and Competitive Interconnects for Cluster Computing.- SCI and Competitive Interconnects for Cluster Computing.- The SCI Standard and Applications of SCI.- A Comparison of Three Gigabit Technologies: SCI, Myrinet and SGI/Cray T3D.- SCI Hardware.- SCI Hardware.- Dolphin SCI Adapter Cards.- The TUM PCI/SCI Adapter.- Interconnection Networks with SCI.- Interconnection Networks with SCI.- Low-Level SCI Protocols and Their Application to Flexible Switches.- SCI Rings, Switches, and Networks for Data Acquisition Systems.- Scalability of SCI Ringlets.- Affordable Scalability Using Multi-Cubes.- Device Driver Software and Low-Level APIs.- Device Driver Software and Low-Level APIs.- Interfacing SCI Device Drivers to Linux.- SCI Physical Layer API.- Message Passing Libraries.- Message Passing Libraries.- SCI Sockets Library.- TCP/IP over SCI under Linux.- PVM for SCI Clusters.- ScaMPI - Design and Implementation.- Shared Memory Programming Models and Runtime Mechanisms.- Shared Memory Programming Models and Runtime Mechanisms.- Shared Memory vs Message Passing on SCI: A Case Study Using Split-C.- A Shared Memory Programming Interface for SCI Clusters.- True Shared Memory Programming on SCI-based Clusters.- Implementing a File System Interface to SCI.- Programming SCI Clusters Using Parallel CORBA Objects.- The MuSE Runtime System for SCI Clusters: A Flexible Combination of On-Stack Execution and Work Stealing.- Benchmark Results and Application Experiences.- Benchmark Results and Application Experiences.- Large-Scale SCI Clusters in Practice: Architecture and Performance.- Shared Memory Parallelization of the GROMOS96 Molecular Dynamics Code.- SCI Prototyping for the Second Level Trigger System of the ATLAS Experiment.- Tools for SCI Clusters.- Tools for SCI Clusters.- SCI Monitoring Hardware and Software: Supporting Performance Evaluation and Debugging.- Monitoring SCI Clusters.- Multi-User System Management on SCI Clusters.- Perspectives.- Perspectives.- Industrial Takeup of SCI and Future Developments.