- September 21, 1998:
``Legion: The Next Logical Step Toward a Nationwide Virtual Computer,''
Andrew S. Grimshaw, William A. Wulf, James C. French,
Alfred C. Weaver, Paul F. Reynolds Jr.
University of Virginia CS Technical Report CS-94-21, June 8, 1994.
The Legion Home Page
- September 28, 1998:
``
Managing Checkpoints for Parallel Programs,''
J. Pruyne and
M. Livny,
Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for
Parallel Processing (IPPS '96), 1996.
The Condor Home Page
- October 5, 1998:
``
NetSolve's Network Enabled Server: Examples and Applications,''
H. Casanova and
J. Dongarra,
IEEE Computational Science & Engineering,
5(3), July-September, 1998, pp. 57-67.
The NetSolve Home Page
- October 12, 1998:
``Extending
the Operating System at the User Level: the Ufo Global File System,''
A. Alexandrov, M. Ibel, K. E. Schauser and C. Scheiman,
USENIX 1997 Annual Technical Conference, Januray, 1997.
Here's the UFO home page.
Also, read up on the
Gass
project from the Globus folks.
- October 19, 1998:
``Accessing files in an internet: The JADE file system,''
H. C. Rao and L. L. Peterson, IEEE Transactions on
Software Engineering, 19(6), June, 1993.
A copy of this paper is in the ``Plank People'' box in Ayres 107.
Make yourself a copy from that.
- October 23, 1998:
``Coda: A Highly Available File System for a
Distributed Workstation Environment,''
M. Satyanarayanan, J. J. Kistler, P. Kuman,
M. E. Okasaki, E. H. Siegel, and D. C. Steere,
IEEE Transactions on Computers 39(4), April, 1990, pp. 447-459.
A copy of this paper is in the ``Plank People'' box in Ayres 107.
Make yourself a copy from that.
- October 30, 1998:
``The NetSolve Service Cluster'' -- an internal
white paper by Plank, Beck and Moore. We'll be discussing this in
class. You can get a copy locally in
postscript or
PDF.
- November 6, 1998:
``Charlotte:
Metacomputing on the Web,''
Arash Baratloo, Mehmet Karaul, Zvi Kedem, and Peter Wyckoff,
International Journal on Future Generation Computer Systems
(to appear), 1998.
- November 13, 1998:
``The
Globus Project: A Status Report.'' I. Foster, C.
Kesselman, Proc. IPPS/SPDP '98 Heterogeneous Computing
Workshop, pg. 4-18, 1998. Describes the status of the
Globus system as of early 1998.
- November 20, 1998:
Read this paper
(you have to be logged on to a local machine to get it).