Contains 34 papers and 32 posters presented at the November 2000 conference on cluster computing. The main subject areas are disks and parallel I/O, high speed interconnects, operating systems and tools, performance evaluation, programming tools, scheduling issues, shared memory issues, and system software for clusters. Applications of cluster computing in business, science, and web servers are also prominent. The topics include the impact of caching in a loosely- coupled clustered SDSM system, development of a spaceborne embedded cluster, an MPI-based tool for distributed genetic programming, a model of completion queue mechanisms using the virtual interface API, and performance analysis of storage and network subsystems in cluster architectures. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |