30th September 1998 |
Version 1.4 is a major release of
the Oxford BSP toolset. New implementations available in this
release are: (1) an improved TCP/IP and UDP/IP
implementation of BSPlib that enables a homogeneous
cluster of workstations to be used as a parallel machine; and
(2) a shared memory implementation for Windows NT. |
30th September 1998 |
A low-latency UDP-like implementation for 3Com 3C905B Ethernet
cards connected by switched 100Mbps Ethernet. The following paper describes
our experience with the dedicated cluster: ``BSP Clusters: high
performance, reliable and very low cost'' Stephen
R. Donaldson, Jonathan M.D. Hill, and David
B. Skillicorn. Technical Report PRG-TR-5-98, Programming Research
Group, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, September 1998. (Compress
Postscript, 271K) |
9th February 1998 |
Radu Calinescu has developed a menu-driven tool for the
automatic parallelisation of nested loops in
the bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) model. The
tool, BSPscheduler,
generates C plus BSPlib code.
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2nd December 1997 |
Three new papers on predictable
(i.e., stable) communication
in BSPlib. |
27th November 1997 |
Version 1.3 is a major release of
the Oxford BSP toolset. The distribution includes a TCP/IP
implementation of BSPlib that enables a homogeneous
cluster of workstations to be used as a parallel machine. The
distribution includes a load
manager that ensures processes
are started on the least loaded processors in a cluster of
workstations. In the next release of the library, a general
purpose process migration and checkpointing facility will be
provided that enables run-time load balancing and fault
tolerance of BSPlib jobs. |
27th November 1997 |
Alex
Gerbessiotis has made available
the following BSP algorithms written using BSPlib: (1) a number of
Matrix multiplication algorithms; (2) primitive operations including
variants of broadcasting (two-phase, tree-based) and parallel prefix
(two-phase, d-ary tree); (3) Gauss-Jordan based matrix inversion and
LU decomposition algorithms. |
24th October 1997 |
Tutorial slides and programming exercises on BSP have been
made available.
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27th September 1997 |
A new release of the library is planned for 21st November 1997. The
release will contain an updated TCP/IP implementation that contains
a load manager for managing jobs among a cluster of workstations.
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24th September 1997 |
BSP cost parameters for the TCP/IP implementation of BSPlib
running on a Pentium
Pro NOW connected by a 10Mbit Ethernet. |
4th August 1997 |
Version 1.1.2 is a minor release of
the Oxford BSP toolset. It
contains a beta release of a TCP/IP version of the
library (see the
user guide), and a version of the library for the Transtech
Paramid. This release includes some bug fixes to v1.1 (see the bug
report list for more details). |
16th June 1997 |
Everything! The first official
release of the Oxford BSP toolset and
associated WWW pages. |