CS 6580 Distributed Systems

• Syllabus

Java RMI

• Code downloading using RMI
• getting started with RMI
• Hello World example
• RMI Compute Server Tutorial

LAM/MPI

• Setup for SSH on CoS Linux boxes
• Getting Started with MPI-LAM on Linux
• In-class lab assignment
• LAM-MPI User Manual

MPICH

• Quick Index to MPI commands
• HOWTO use MPI on CSUEB Suns
• User's Guide to MPICH
• HTML version of MPICH 1.2.6 manpages
• MPICH 1.2.6 Installation and User's Guide ( Note that mpich is already installed in /opt/local/mpich-1.2.6, don't bother to build and install it yourself!).
• some notes on external sorting that may be relevant
• Official MPI docs

• Setting up your MICO environment
• View the ORBACUS training material here
• OOC workbook sections discussed in class
• MICO manual in PDF format

• Google File System paper (pdf)
• PPT slides from Coulouris text
• Global States lecture
• Web Services lecture(for IE browser)
• Web Services lecture as PowerPoint

• some additional lecture notes
• Introduction to CORBA for JAVA
• MICO homepage (MICO=MICO Is COrba)
• Object Management Group -- CORBA
• OMG IDL-to-C++ mapping
• OMG IDL-to-Java mapping
• Naming Service Spec

some papers

Many research projects are working toward an Internet-scale operating system, including:

The Globus Alliance: www.globus.org The Globus Grid Toolkit
Legion: http://legion.virginia.edu/index.html Worldwide Virtual Computer
Condor: www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ High Throughput Computing
Entropia: www.entropia.com PC Grid Computing

Chord: www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/chord/
Cosm: www.mithral.com/projects/cosm/
Eurogrid: www.eurogrid.org/
Farsite: http://research.microsoft.com/sn/farsite/
Grid Physics Network (Griphyn): www.griphyn.org/
OceanStore: http://oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/
Particle Physics Data Grid: www.ppdg.net/
Pastry: www.research.microsoft.com/~antr/pastry/
Tapestry: www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ravenben/tapestry/