A.2 URLs

These URLs offering software and documentation were current when this book was written. They are grouped roughly by category. Within a category, they are organized roughly in alphabetic order. However, closely related items are grouped together. Most categories are short, so you shouldn't have too much trouble locating an item even if you need to skim the entire category.

A.2.1 General Cluster Information

http://www.beowulf.org. This site has general information on Beowulf clusters, including tutorials.

http://clustering.foundries.sourceforge.net. Clustering Foundry is a source for cluster software.

http://www.clusterworld.com. This is the web site for ClusterWorld magazine.

http://www.dell.com/powersolutions. Dell Power Solutions Magazine has frequent articles or special issues devoted to clustering.

http://www.linux-ha.org. This is the home for the Linux High-Availability Project. It provides many links to information useful in setting up an HA cluster.

http://www.lcic.org. Linux Clustering Information Center is a great source of information and links.

http://www.tldp.org. Linux Documentation Project is the home to a vast store of Linux documentation, including FAQs, HOWTOs, and other guides.

http://www.linux-vs.org. This is the home to the Linux Virtual Server Project, another site of interest if you want high availability or load balancing.

http://www.linuxhpc.org. This is the home to LinuxHPC.org, another site to visit for high-performance cluster information.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/. This is the Remote Serial Console HOWTO.

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu. This is the home for the SETI@Home project.

http://www.top500.org. If you want to know what computers are currently on the 500 top supercomputers list, visit this site.

http://clusters.top500.org. For the top 500 clusters, visit this site.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com. Although IBM-Scentric, the Redbooks series contains a wealth of information. Look for the Redbooks on SANs or Globus.

A.2.2 Linux

http://bccd.cs.uni.edu. This is the home of the Bootable Cluster CD (BCCD).

http://www.debian.org. This is the home for Debian Linux.

http://www.gentoo.org. This is the home for Gentoo Linux.

http://www.knoppix.org. This is the home for Knoppix. Click on a flag for the language of your choice. For a cluster version of Knoppix, visit http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/.

http://www.kernel.org. The Linux Kernels Archive provides kernel sources.

http://www.mandrakesoft.com. This is the home for Mandrake Linux

http://plumpos.sourceforge.net. This is the home for PlumpOS.

http://www.redhat.com. This is the home for Red Hat Linux.

http://www.suse.com. This is the home for SUSE Linux.

A.2.3 Cluster Software

http://bioinformatics.org/biobrew/. Visit the Biobrew site for information on a Rocks-based bioinformatics cluster.

http://www.mosix.org. This is site for the Mosix project.

http://openmosix.sourceforge.net. This is the site for the openMosix project.

http://www.openmosixview.com. If you are running openMosix, visit this site for the openMosixView tools.

http://howto.ipng.be/Mosix-HOWTO/. Visit this site for the most recent version of Kris Buytaert's openMosix HOWTO.

http://mcaserta.com/maask/. For more information on the MigSHM openMosix patch, visit this site.

http://oscar.openclustergroup.org. This is the home of the Open Cluster Group and the site to visit for OSCAR.

http://www.openclustergroup.org/HA-OSCAR/. This is the home for the high availability OSCAR branch.

http://rocks.npaci.edu. This is the home for Rocks.

http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/npaci.html. This is Steven Baum's Rocks site, another good source of information on Rocks. This has very nice sections on grids and on applications available for clusters.

http://www.scyld.com. This is the home for Scyld Beowulf. An earlier, nonsupported version of Scyld Beowulf can be purchased at http://www.linuxcentral.com.

A.2.4 Grid Computing and Tools

http://www.globus.org. If you are interested in grid computing, you should start by visiting the Globus Alliance site.

http://gridengine.sunsource.net. This is the home for the Sun Grid Engine.

http://www.nsf-middleware.org. This is the home for the NSF middleware grid software.

http://www.opensce.org. This is the home for the OpenSCE (Scalable Cluster Environment) project.

http://nws.cs.ucsb.edu. This is the home for the Network Weather Service.

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Divisions/ACES/GPT/. This is the home for the Grid Packaging Tools.

http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/kerb_pki/. This is the home for KX.509 and KCA.

http://grid.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ssh/. This is the home for GSI OpenSSH.

http://grid.ncsa.uiuc.edu/myproxy/. This is the home for MyProxy.

http://rocks.npaci.edu/gridconfig/. A user's manual for the Rocks Gridconfig Tools can be found at this site.

A.2.5 Cloning and Management Software

http://www.csm.ornl.gov/torc/C3/. This is the home for Cluster Command and Control (C3).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/clumon. If you need Clumon, it can be downloaded from SourceForge.

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/. This is the home for g4u.

http://ganglia.sourceforge.net. Ganglia can be downloaded from this site.

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/. This is the home for SGI's Performance Co-Pilot.

http://sisuite.sourceforge.net. This is the home for System Installation Suite (SIS). It provides links to System Configurator, SystemImager, and System Installer.

A.2.6 Filesystems

http://clusternfs.sourceforge.net. This is the home for ClusterNFS.

http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/index.html. This is the home for the Coda file system

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/clusters/software/gpfs.html. This site provides information for GPFS, the General Parallel File System.

http://www.inter-mezzo.org. This is the home for the InterMezzo filesystem.

http://www.lustre.org. This is the home for the Luster filesystem.

http://www.openafs.org. This is the home for the Open Andrew filesystem.

http://opengfs.sourceforge.net. This is the home for OpenGFS Project.

http://www.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/. This is the home to the PVFS. For PVFS2, go to http://www.pvfs.org/pvfs2/.

A.2.7 Parallel Benchmarks

http://www.netlib.org. The Netlib Repository is a good place to start if you need benchmarks.

http://hint.byu.edu. This is the home for the Hierarchical Integration (HINT) benchmark.

http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/. This is the home for High Performance Linpack benchmark.

http://www.iozone.org. This is the home for Iozone, an I/O and file system benchmark tool.

http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/. This is the home for Iperf, a network performance measurement tool.

http://science.nas.nasa.gov/Software/NPB/. This is the home for the NAS Parallel Benchmarks.

A.2.8 Programming Software

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/. This is the Data Display Debugger's home page.

http://gcc.gnu.org. This is the home page for the gcc compiler project. This project includes gprof and gcov.

http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/. This is the home page for HDF5.

http://java.sun.com. This is Sun's Java page. Java can also be downloaded from http://www.blackdown.org.

http://www.lam-mpi.org. This is the home page for the LAM/MPI project.

http://www.mpi-forum.org. This is the home page for the MPI Forum. Visit this site for standards documents and other information on MPI.

http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/. This is the home page for MPICH.

http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/. This is the home page for PVM.

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/romio/. This is the home page for ROMIO.

http://www.splint.org. This is the home page for SPLINT.

http://sprng.cs.fsu.edu/. This is the home page for SPRNG, the Scalable Parallel Random Number Generator.

http://www.scriptics.com. This is the home page for Tcl/Tk.

http://vmi.ncsa.uiuc.edu. This is NCSA's page for the Virtual Machine Interface or VMI.

A.2.9 Scheduling Software

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor. This is the home for the Condor Project.

http://www.supercluster.org. This is the Center for HPC Cluster Resource Management and Scheduling. Visit this site for Maui and Torque.

http://umbc7.umbc.edu/nqs/nqsmain.html. This is the home for the Network Queuing Systems software.

http://www.openpbs.org. This is the home for the open software branch for PBS. For OpenPBS patches, you might visit http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/openpbs/ and http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/~ben/pbs/.

http://www.pbspro.com This is the home for the commercial branch for PBS.

A.2.10 System Software and Utilities

http://www.chkrootkit.org. This is the home for the chkrootkit security program.

http://modules.sourceforge.net. The modules package, on which switcher is based, can be downloaded from SourceForge.

http://www.myri.com. This commercial site is the home for Myricom, the creators of Myrinet.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pfilter. If you want the pfilter software, you can download it from SourceForge.

http://www.rrdtool.org. This is the home for Tobi Oetiker's RRDtool.

http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync. Visit this site for more information or the latest version of rsync.

http://www.tripwire.org. This is the home for the tripwire security auditing tool.

http://vsftpd.beasts.org. This is the home for Very Secure FTP.