Publications, Technical Reports, and White Papers of the NOW Team

Paper Guide

General NOW
Fast Communication
Distributed Operating Systems
Scalable File Service
High-Performance Applications
Architecture
NOW on the Web

General NOW

A Case for Networks of Workstations: NOW.
IEEE Micro, Feb, 1995.
Thomas E. Anderson, David E. Culler, David A. Patterson, and the NOW Team.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript.
Parallel Computing on the Berkeley NOW.
To appear in JSPP'97 (9th Joint Symposium on Parallel Processing ) , Kobe, Japan .
David E. Culler, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Brent Chun, Steven Lumetta, Alan Mainwaring, Richard Martin, Chad Yoshikawa, Frederick Wong.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript

High-Performance Networking

Managing Concurrent Access for Shared Memory Active Messages.
To appear in IPPS/SPDP 98 , Orlando, FL , March, 1998 .
Steven S. Lumetta, David E. Culler.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript
Multi-Protocol Active Messages on a Cluster of SMP's.
To appear in SC'97 , San Jose, California , November, 1997 .
Steven S. Lumetta, Alan M. Mainwaring, David E. Culler.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript
System Area Network Mapping.
To appear in SPAA'97 , Newport, Rhode Island , June, 1997 .
Brent Chun,, Alan Mainwaring,, Saul Schleimer,, Daniel Wilkerson,.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript
Effects of Communication Latency, Overhead, and Bandwidth in a Cluster Architecture.
ISCA 24 , Denver, Co , June, 1997 .
Richard P. Martin, Amin M. Vahdat, David E. Culler, Thomas E. Anderson.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript
High-Performance Local-Area Communication Using Fast Sockets.
USENIX '97 , 1997 .
Steve Rodrigues, Tom Anderson, David Culler.
Available as: PostScript
LogP Performance Assessment of Fast Network Interfaces.
IEEE Micro , 1996 .
David Culler, Lok Tin Liu, Richard Martin, Chad Yoshikawa.
Available as: PostScript
LogP Quantified: The Case for Low-Overhead Local Area Networks.
Hot Interconnects III: A Symposium on High Performance Interconnects , 1995 .
Kimberly K. Keeton, Thomas E. Anderson, David A. Patterson.
Available as: PostScript
Evaluation of the Intel Paragon on Active Message Communication.
Proceedings of Intel Supercomputer Users Group Conference , 1995 .
Lok T. Liu, David E. Culler.
Available as: PostScript
Active Messages: Organization and Applications Programming Interface.
Technical Document , 1995 .
Alan M. Mainwaring, David E. Culler.
Available as: PostScript
Remote Queues: Exposing Network Queues for Atomicity and Optimization.
Proceedings of SPAA , 1995 .
Eric A. Brewer, Frederic T. Chong, Lok T. Liu, John Kubiatowicz, Shamik D. Sharma.
Available as: PostScript
HPAM: An Active Message Layer for a Network of HP workstations.
Hot Interconnects , 1994.
Richard P. Martin.
Available as: PostScript
Measurement of Active Message Performance on the CM-5.
Technical Report , 1994.
Lok T. Liu, David E. Culler.
Available as: PostScript
Building TCP/IP Active Messages.
White Paper , 1994.
Lok Tin Liu, Alan Mainwaring, Chad Yoshikawa.
Available as: PostScript
The Generic Active Message Interface Specification.
White Paper , 1994.
David Culler, Kim Keeton, Lok Tim Liu, Alan Mainwaring, Rich Martin, Steve Rodrigues, Kristin Wright, Chad Yoshikawa.
Available as: PostScript

Distributed Operating Systems

Scheduling with Implicit Information in Distributed Systems.
1998 SIGMETRICS Conference on the Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems , pages 233-243 , Madison , Wisconsin , June 24-26, 1998 .
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler, Alan Mainwaring.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript
GLUnix: A Global Layer Unix for a Network of Workstations.
To appear in Software Practice and Experience .
Douglas P. Ghormley, David Petrou, Steven H. Rodrigues, Amin M. Vahdat, Thomas E. Anderson.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript
Extending Proportional-Share Scheduling to a Network of Workstations.
To appear in International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'97) , Las Vegas, Nevada , June, 1997 .
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript
Effective Distributed Scheduling of Parallel Workloads.
SIGMETRICS '96 Conference on Measurement and Modeling , 1996.
Andrea C. Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci, David E. Culler.
Available as: PostScript
TheMagicrouter: An Application of Fast Packet Interposing.
Submitted to OSDI '96 , 1996.
Eric Anderson, David A. Patterson.
Available as: PostScript
The Interaction of Parallel and Sequential Workloads on a Network of Workstations.
SIGMETRICS '95 , 1995.
Remzi H. Arpaci, Andrea Dusseau, Amin M. Vahdat, Lok T. Liu, Thomas E. Anderson, David A. Patterson.
Available as: PostScript
Efficient, Portable, and Robust Extension of Operating System Functionality.
UC Berkeley Technical Report CS-94-842 , 1994.
Amin M. Vahdat, Douglas P. Ghormley, Thomas E. Anderson.
Available as: PostScript
Network RAM.
White Paper , 1994.
Alan Mainwaring, Chad Yoshikawa, Kristin Wright.
Available as: PostScript
Previous Work in Distributed Operating Systems.
White Paper , 1995.
Kim Keeton, Steve Rodrigues, Drew Roselli.
Available as: PostScript

Scalable I/O

Cluster I/O with River: Making the Fast Case Common.

To appear in IOPADS '99.

Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau

Eric Anderson

Noah Treuhaft

David E. Culler

Joseph M. Hellerstein

Modeling and Optimizing Pipeline Latency.
1998 SIGMETRICS Conference on the Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems , Madison, Wisconsin , 6/24/98 - 6/26/98 .
Randolph Y. Wang, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Richard P. Martin, Thomas E. Anderson, David E. Culler.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript
Experience with a Language for Writing Coherence Protocols.
To appear in USENIX Conference on Domain-Specific Languages USENIX/DSL , Santa Barbara, California , October 15-17, 1997 .
Satish Chandra, Michael Dahlin, Bradley Richards, Randolph Wang, Thomas E. Anderson, James R. Larus.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript
Improving the Performance of Log-Structured File Systems with Adaptive Methods.
To appear in SOSP 16 , St. Malo, France , October 5-8, 1997 .
Jeanna Neefe Matthews, Drew Roselli, Adam M. Costello, Randy Wang, Tom Anderson.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript
Serverless Network File Systems.
15th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems , 1995.
Tom Anderson, Michael Dahlin, Jeanna Neefe, David Patterson, Drew Roselli, Randy Wang.
Available as: PostScript
The Design of Large-Scale, Do-It-Yourself RAIDs.
White Paper , 1995.
Satoshi Asami, Nisha Talagala, Thomas Anderson, Ken Lutz, David Patterson.
Available as: PostScript
Cooperative Caching: Using Remote Client Memory to Improve File System Performance.
OSDI 1 , 1994.
Michael Dahlin, Randolph Wang, Thomas Anderson, David Patterson.
Available as: PostScript
A Quantitative Analysis of Cache Policies for Scalable Network File Systems.
SIGMETRICS '94 , 1994.
Michael Dahlin, Clifford Mather, Randolph Wang, Thomas Anderson, David Patterson.
Available as: PostScript
xFS: A Wide Area Mass Storage File System.
White Paper , 1993.
Randolph Y. Wang, Thomas E. Anderson.
Available as: PostScript
Robo-line Storage: Low Latency, High Capacity Storage Systems Over Geographically Distributed Networks.
White Paper , 1991.
Randy H. Katz, Thomas E. Anderson, John K. Ousterhout, David A. Patterson.
Available as: PostScript

High-Performance Applications

Searching for the Sorting Record: Experiences in Tuning NOW-Sort.
The 1998 Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Tools (SPDT '98) , Welches, Oregon , August 3-4, 1998 .
Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler, Joseph M. Hellerstein, David A. Patterson.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript
High-Performance Sorting on Networks of Workstations.
SIGMOD '97, Tucson, Arizona, May, 1997.
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler, Joseph M. Hellerstein, David A. Patterson.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript

Architecture

The Architectural Costs of Streaming I/O: A Comparison of Workstations, Clusters, and SMPs.
To appear in HPCA 4 , Las Vegas, February, 1998 .
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler, Joseph M. Hellerstein, David A. Patterson.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript

NOW on the Web

Using Smart Clients To Build Scalable Services.
USENIX '97 , 1997.
Chad Yoshikawa, Brent Chun, Paul Eastham, Amin Vahdat, Tom Anderson, David Culler.
Available as: PostScript

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