Courses     Journals     Programming     Projects    Conferences     Institutes and Organizations       Software    Supercomputer

Courses

• Understanding Parallel Architectures:From Theory To Practice - University of Tennessee 

• Parallel Computing: Models, Languages, and Architectures - Boston University

• Topics in Distributed Systems - Brown University

• Parallel Algorithms and Programming - Carnegie Mellon.

• Distributed Systems - Carnegie Mellon

• Distributed Systems and Algorithms -Cornell University

• Computer Networks and Distributed Systems - Duke University

• Distributed Information Systems - Duke University

• Distributed Computing - Georgia Tech 

• Distributed Systems - John Hopkins

• Parallel Processing Computer Systems - Michigan State

• Distributed Algorithms - MIT

• Principles of Parallel Computing - Notre Dame

• Distributed Computing Systems - Oregon Graduate Institute

• Distributed Computing and Networking - Princeton

• Distributed Storage Systems - Princeton

• Introduction to Distributed Systems and Networks - Temple University

• Applications of Parallel Computers - Berkeley

• High-Performance Parallel Systems and Languages - UCSB

• Parallel Computation - UCSD

• Distributed Systems - Colorado State

• Networking and Distributed Systems - University of Kentucky

• Distributed Algorithms and Verification - University of Maryland

• Parallel and Distributed Computing - University of North Carolina

• Distributed Computing  - University of Texas, Austin

• Parallel Programming - Yale University

Journals

• Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices (PDCP) - provides an avenue for publication of original refereed papers addressing issues and trends.

• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - directed to researchers, engineers, educators, managers, programmers, and usersof computers who have particular interests in parallel processing and/or distributed computing

• access online - magazine from NCSA - magazine from NCSA

• IEEE Concurrency - features readable articles on hardware and software topics aimed at developers and practitioners.

• IEEE Internet Computing - to help computer scientists and engineers use the ever-expanding resources of the Internet.

• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) - to publish a range of papers, comments on previously published papers, and survey articles that deal with the research areas of current importance to readers

• Parallel Computing - an international journal presenting the theory and use of parallel computer systems, including vector, pipeline, array and fifth and future generation computers and neural computers. Within this context the journal covers all aspects of high-speed computing

• Parallel Processing Letters (PPL) aims to rapidly disseminate results in the field of parallel processing in the form of short letters

• Distributed Systems Engineering- ceases publication with the final issue of 1999.As a service to the distributed systems community, the full electronic archive of the journal will be maintained with free availability to all.

• Distributed and parallel database - provides  focus for the presentation and dissemination of new research results, systems development efforts, and user experiences in distributed and parallel database systems.
  

Programming

• SR Programming Language - a language for writing concurrent programs developed at University of Arizona .

• High Performance Fortran - a coalition of industry, academic and laboratory representatives, works to define a set of extensions to Fortran 90 known collectively as High Performance Fortran (HPF).

Projects

• Condor High Throughput Computing

• Globus

• Legion

• NetSolve

• Network Weather Service

• Ninf

• OASIS

• Parallel Visual Machine

• UCSD AppLeS: Performance Prediction Engineering for Metacomputing

• UNICON

Conferences

• Upcoming Compiler and Parallel Computing Conferences 

• Netlib Conference Database List

Institutes and Organizations

• Innovative Computing Laboratory - provides high performance tools to tackle science's most challenging problems and plays a major role in the development of standards for scientific computing in general.

• San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) -a research unit of the University of California, San Diego, and the leading-edge site of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure.

• High Performance Computing Initiative Center - University of Southampton, UK

• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center - a joint effort of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh together with the Westinghouse Electric Company.

• National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) - one of the five original National Science Foundation  Supercomputer Centers.

• Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC) - provides resources in computational sciences and educational resources. 

• National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) - to advance science by creating a ubiquitous, continuous, and pervasive national computational infrastructure: the Grid.

• Ohio Supercomputer Center - fully-scalable center with mid-range machines to match those found at the NSF centers and national labs
  

Software

• PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)  - a software package that permits a heterogeneous collection of Unix and/or NT computers hooked together by a network to be used as a single large parallel computer.

•  Netlib - contains freely available software, documents, and databases of interest to the numerical, scientific computing, and other communities. 

•  National HPCC Software Exchange - actively promotes software sharing and reuse within and across the HPCC agency programs on a sustainable basis.

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Supercomputer 

• TOP500 Supercomputer Sites - the sites that have the 500 most powerful computer systems installed.

• Lawrence Livermore National Lab - Livermore, California, US

• National Security Agency- Fort Meade, Maryland, US

• NuTec Sciences - Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Compaq - Littleton, Massachusetts, US - Littleton, Massachusetts, US

• Sandia National Labs -  Albuquerque, New Mexico, US -  Albuquerque, New Mexico, US

• Raytheon Systems - Garland, Texas, US

• Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - Oakland, California, US

• Los Alamos National Lab - Los Alamos, New Mexico, US