Distributed Computing      Archival page 2002

The Distributed Computing group performs research in a wide range of areas spanning high performance computing and collaborative technologies. There is much collaboration with other groups at ORNL, UT and the Center for Computational Sciences, as well as outside researchers.

Research Areas

Cluster Computing - Beowulf and Beyond!

TORC - Tennessee Oak Ridge Clusters. A set of PC clusters spanning UTK and ORNL.

Heterogeneous distributed computing

Harness the next generation virtual machine environment beyond PVM

PVM The de facto standard for heterogeneous cluster computing.

XPVM A graphical control interface and performance monitor for PVM.

CUMULVS A collaborative computing environment that provides computational steering, fault tolerance and visualization to parallel applications.

NetSolve A client/server package that allows users to access computational resources distributed across the network.

MPI-2 Extensions to the Message Passing Interface specifications adding one-sided communication, process spawning, and I/O.

MPI-Connect A package that provides interoperability between different MPI implementations.

DOE 2000 Collaborative Technologies

Electronic Notebook A shareable notebook for use by collaborators.

CUMULVS A collaborative computing environment that plays a key role in the ACTS toolkit project. computational steering, fault tolerance and visualization.

Remote control of scientific instruments Overviews several ORNL Collaboratory efforts.

Collaborative Management Environment A framework for a robust, scalable, and secure virtual management system

Software tools for high performance computing

Scalapack A library of scaleable parallel linear algebra routines supporting PVM and MPI.

BenchWeb: BenchWeb is a starting point for finding information about computer system performance benchmarks, benchmark results, and benchmark code.

Parkbench: parallel benchmark working group

NETLIB Central repository for mathematical software, papers, and databases.

NHSE An interface to a distributed collection of HPCC repositories.

Computational Grand Challenges

Materials Magnetism

Analysis of Genomes

CHAMMP Program for the Global Change Research Program

Numerical Tokamak

Staff

• D. E. Bernholdt
• M. J. Brim
• J. Dongarra
• W. R. Elwasif
• C. Engleman
• Graham Fagg
• J. A. Kohl
• J. Langer
• B. Leuthke
• J. Schwidder
• S. L. Scott
• D. M. Swany, Jr.
• J. B. White
• T. Wilde

If you have an interest in collaborating with us, contact Al Geist, (865)574-3153.