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* Compatible with:          Bell Lab's Unix 6.
 
* Compatible with:          Bell Lab's Unix 6.
 
* References:  
 
* References:  
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# Barak A., Shapir A., Steinberg G. and Karshmer A.I., A Modular, Distributed UNIX. Proc. 14-th Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Science, pp. 740-747, January 1981.
 
 
# Barak A. and Shapir A., UNIX with satellite Processors. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 383-392, May 1980.
 
# Barak A. and Shapir A., UNIX with satellite Processors. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 383-392, May 1980.
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# Barak A., Shapir A., Steinberg G. and Karshmer A.I., A Modular, Distributed UNIX. Proc. 14-th Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Science, pp. 740-747, January 1981.
  
 
===Version 1===
 
===Version 1===
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* Compatible with:          Bell Lab's Unix 7<BR>
 
* Compatible with:          Bell Lab's Unix 7<BR>
 
* References:
 
* References:
 +
# Barak A. and Litman A., MOS - A Multicomputer Distributed Operating System. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 725-737, Aug. 1985.
 
# Barak A. and Shiloh A., A Distributed Load-balancing Policy for a Multicomputer. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 15, No. 9, pp. 901-913, Sept. 1985.  
 
# Barak A. and Shiloh A., A Distributed Load-balancing Policy for a Multicomputer. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 15, No. 9, pp. 901-913, Sept. 1985.  
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# Barak A. and Litman A., MOS - A Multicomputer Distributed Operating System. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 725-737, Aug. 1985.
 
  
 
===Version 2===
 
===Version 2===
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* Compatible with: Bell Lab's Unix 7 with some BSD 4.1 extensions
 
* Compatible with: Bell Lab's Unix 7 with some BSD 4.1 extensions
 
* References:
 
* References:
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#Barak A. and Paradise G. O., MOS - a Load Balancing UNIX. Proc. Autumn 86 EUUG Conf., pp. 273-280, Manchester, Sept. 1986.
 
 
#Barak A. and Paradise G. O., MOS - Scaling Up UNIX. Proc. Summer 1986 USENIX Conf., pp. 414-418, Atlanta, GA, June 1986.
 
#Barak A. and Paradise G. O., MOS - Scaling Up UNIX. Proc. Summer 1986 USENIX Conf., pp. 414-418, Atlanta, GA, June 1986.
 +
#Barak A. and Paradise G. O., MOS - a Load Balancing UNIX. Proc. Autumn 86 EUUG Conf., pp. 273-280, Manchester, Sept. 1986.
 +
#Barak A. and Malki D., Distributed Light Weight Processes in MOS, Proc. Autumn 88 EUUG Conf., pp. 335-343, Cascais, Oct. 1988
  
 
===Version 3===
 
===Version 3===
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* Machines:                NS32332
 
* Machines:                NS32332
 
* Compatible with:          AT&T Unix system V release 2
 
* Compatible with:          AT&T Unix system V release 2
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* References:
+
* Reference:
 
#Barel A., NSMOS - MOS Port to the National's 32000 Family Architecture. Proc. 2nd Israel Conf. Computer Systems and Soft. Eng., Tel-Aviv, May 1987
 
#Barel A., NSMOS - MOS Port to the National's 32000 Family Architecture. Proc. 2nd Israel Conf. Computer Systems and Soft. Eng., Tel-Aviv, May 1987
  
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* Compatible with:          AT&T Unix System V release 2
 
* Compatible with:          AT&T Unix System V release 2
 
* References:
 
* References:
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#Barak A., Guday S. and Wheeler R., The MOSIX Distributed Operating System, Load Balancing for UNIX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 672, Springer-Verlag, May 1993.
 
 
#Barak A. and Wheeler R., MOSIX: An Integrated Multiprocessor UNIX. Proc. Winter 1989 USENIX Conf., pp. 101-112, San Diego, CA, Feb. 1989.  
 
#Barak A. and Wheeler R., MOSIX: An Integrated Multiprocessor UNIX. Proc. Winter 1989 USENIX Conf., pp. 101-112, San Diego, CA, Feb. 1989.  
 
#Barak A., Shiloh A. and Wheeler R., Flood Prevention in the MOSIX Load-Balancing Scheme, IEEE-TCOS Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 24-27, Winter 1989.
 
#Barak A., Shiloh A. and Wheeler R., Flood Prevention in the MOSIX Load-Balancing Scheme, IEEE-TCOS Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 24-27, Winter 1989.
 +
#Barak A., Guday S. and Wheeler R., The MOSIX Distributed Operating System, Load Balancing for UNIX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 672, Springer-Verlag, May 1993.
  
 
===Version 6===
 
===Version 6===
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* Compatible with:          BSD/OS
 
* Compatible with:          BSD/OS
 
* References:
 
* References:
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#Barak A. and La'adan O., The MOSIX Multicomputer Operating System for High Performance Cluster Computing. Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 13, No. 4-5, pp. 361-372, March 1998.  
+
#Barak A. and Yarom Y., Transparent Process Migration in a Network of Workstations, Proc. Workshop on Distributed Algorithms and Systems, St. Malo, Oct. 1994.
−
#Barak A., Laden O. and Yarom Y., The NOW MOSIX and its Preemptive Process Migration Scheme. IEEE TCOS, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 5-11, Summer 1995.
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#A. Barak, O. La'adan and Y. Yarom, The NOW MOSIX and its Preemptive Process Migration Scheme, Bull. IEEE Tech. Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environments, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 5-11, Summer 1995.
 +
#Barak A. and La'adan O., Experience with a Scalable PC Cluster for HPC, Proc. Cluster Computing Conf. (CCC 97), Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, March 1997.
 +
#Barak A. and Braverman A., Memory Ushering in a Scalable Computing Cluster, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Vol. 22, No. 3-4, pp. 175-182, Aug. 1998.
 +
#Barak A., Gilderman I. and Metrik I., Performance of the Communication Layers of TCP/IP with the Myrinet Gigabit LAN, Computer Communications, Vol. 22, No. 11, July 1999.  
  
 
===Version 7===
 
===Version 7===
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* Machines:                x86
 
* Machines:                x86
 
* Compatible with:          LINUX 2.2
 
* Compatible with:          LINUX 2.2
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* References:
+
* Reference:
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#Amir Y., Awerbuch B., Barak A., Borgstrom R.S. and Keren A., An Opportunity Cost Approach for Job Assignment in a Scalable Computing Cluster. IEEE Tran. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 11, No. 7, pp. 760-768, July 2000.
+
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#Amar L., Barak A., Eizenberg A. and Shiloh A.,. The MOSIX Scalable Cluster File Systems for LINUX, June 2000.
+
 
#Barak A., La'adan O. and Shiloh A., Scalable Cluster Computing with MOSIX for LINUX. Proc. 5-th Annual Linux Expo, pp. 95-100, Raleigh, NC, May 1999.
 
#Barak A., La'adan O. and Shiloh A., Scalable Cluster Computing with MOSIX for LINUX. Proc. 5-th Annual Linux Expo, pp. 95-100, Raleigh, NC, May 1999.
  
 
===Version 8===
 
===Version 8===
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* Development (started/completed):  2000-01
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* Development(started/completed):  2000-01
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* Name:                    MOSIX (Version 1)
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* Name:                    MOSIX
 
* Machines:                x86
 
* Machines:                x86
 
* Compatible with:          LINUX 2.4
 
* Compatible with:          LINUX 2.4
 
* References:
 
* References:
−
#Amar L., Barak A. and Shiloh A., The MOSIX Direct File System Access Method for Supporting Scalable Cluster File Systems. Cluster Computing, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 141-150, April 2004.
+
#Amar L., Barak A. and Shiloh A., The MOSIX Parallel I/O System for Scalable I/O Performance. Proc. 14-th IASTED Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2002), pp. 495-500, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 2002.  
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#Keren A. and Barak A., Opportunity Cost Algorithms for Reduction of I/O and Interprocess Communication Overhead in a Computing Cluster. IEEE Tran. Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 39-50, January 2003.
+
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#Amar L., Barak A. and Shiloh A., The MOSIX Parallel I/O System for Scalable I/O Performance. Proc. 14-th IASTED Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2002), pp. 495-500, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 2002.
+
  
 
===Version 9===
 
===Version 9===
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* Machines:                x86
 
* Machines:                x86
 
* Compatible with:          LINUX 2.4
 
* Compatible with:          LINUX 2.4
−
* References:
+
* Reference:
−
#Barak A. and Drezner Z., Gossip-Based Distributed Algorithms for Estimating the Average Load of Scalable Computing Clusters and Grids. Proc. 2004 Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'04), Las Vegas, NV, June 2004
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#Amar L., Barak A. and Shiloh A., The MOSIX Direct File System Access Method for Supporting Scalable Cluster File Systems. Cluster Computing, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 141-150, April 2004.
  
 
===Version 10===
 
===Version 10===
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* Compatible with:          Linux-2.6
 
* Compatible with:          Linux-2.6
 
* References:
 
* References:
 +
# Barak A., Shiloh A. and Amar L., An Organizational Grid of Federated MOSIX Clusters. Proc. 5th IEEE Int. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'05), pp. 350-357, Cardiff, May 2005.
 +
# Amar L., Barak A., Levy E. and Okun M., An On-line Algorithm for Fair-Share Node Allocations in a Cluster. Proc. 7th IEEE Int. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'07), pp. 83-91, Rio de Janeiro, May 2007.
 +
# Meiri E. and Barak A., Parallel Compression of Correlated Files, IEEE Cluster 2007, pp.285-292, Austin, TX, Sept. 2007.
 +
# Maoz T., Barak A. and Amar L., Combining Virtual Machine Migration with Process Migration for HPC on Multi-Clusters and Grids, IEEE Cluster 2008, pp. 89-98, Tsukuba, Sept. 2008
 
# Amar L., Barak A., Drezner Z. and Okun M., Randomized Gossip Algorithms for Maintaining a Distributed Bulletin Board with Guaranteed Age Properties, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, InterScience, Wiley, March 2009.
 
# Amar L., Barak A., Drezner Z. and Okun M., Randomized Gossip Algorithms for Maintaining a Distributed Bulletin Board with Guaranteed Age Properties, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, InterScience, Wiley, March 2009.
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#Maoz T., Barak A. and Amar L., Combining Virtual Machine Migration with Process Migration for HPC on Multi-Clusters and Grids, IEEE Cluster 2008, Tsukuba, Sept. 2008.
 
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#Meiri E. and Barak A., Parallel Compression of Correlated Files, Proc. IEEE Cluster 2007, Austin, Sept. 2007.
 
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#Amar L., Stosser J., Barak A. and Neumann D., Economically Enhanced MOSIX for Market-based Scheduling in Grid OS, Workshop on Economic Models and Algorithms for Grid Systems (EAMGS 2007), the 8th IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Grid Computing (Grid 2007), Austin, Sept. 2007.
 
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#Amar L., Barak A., Levy E. and Okun M., An On-line Algorithm for Fair-Share Node Allocations in a Cluster. Proc. 7-th IEEE Int. Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid '07), pp. 83-91, Rio de Janeiro, May 2007.
 
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#Amar L., Barak A., Drezner Z. and Peer I., Gossip Algorithms for Maintaining a Distributed Bulletin Board with Guaranteed Age Properties, 2006.         
 
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# Barak A., Shiloh A. and Amar L., An Organizational Grid of Federated MOSIX Clusters. Proc. 5-th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and Grid (CCGrid '05), Cardiff, May 2005.
 
  
 
===MOSIX Reach the Clouds===
 
===MOSIX Reach the Clouds===
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* Machines:                x86/i64 with GPU devices
 
* Machines:                x86/i64 with GPU devices
 
* Compatible with:          Linux-2.6 and OpenCL-1.0
 
* Compatible with:          Linux-2.6 and OpenCL-1.0
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* References:
+
* Reference:
 
# Barak A., Ben-Nun T., Levy E. and Shiloh A., A Package for OpenCL Based Heterogeneous Computing on Clusters with Many GPU Devices, Workshop on Parallel Programming and Applications on Accelerator Clusters (PPAAC), IEEE Cluster 2010, Crete, Sept. 2010.
 
# Barak A., Ben-Nun T., Levy E. and Shiloh A., A Package for OpenCL Based Heterogeneous Computing on Clusters with Many GPU Devices, Workshop on Parallel Programming and Applications on Accelerator Clusters (PPAAC), IEEE Cluster 2010, Crete, Sept. 2010.

Revision as of 21:59, 30 September 2010

Version 0

A research project on process migration started in 1977. A prototype operating system kernel, based on Bell Lab's Unix 6 was developed and tests were performed on a PDP-11/45 and a diskless PDP-11/10 that were connected by parallel I/O.

This study demonstrated that even with slow communication links, it is possible to gain substantial performance improvements by migrating and running processes in remote nodes.

  • Development (started/completed): 1977-79
  • Name: UNIX with Satellite Processors.
  • Machines: PDP-11/45 + PDP-11/10.
  • Compatible with: Bell Lab's Unix 6.
  • References:
  1. Barak A. and Shapir A., UNIX with satellite Processors. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 383-392, May 1980.
  2. Barak A., Shapir A., Steinberg G. and Karshmer A.I., A Modular, Distributed UNIX. Proc. 14-th Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Science, pp. 740-747, January 1981.

Version 1

  • Development (started/completed): 1981-83
  • Name: MOS
  • Machines: PDP-11/45 + PDP-11/23
  • Compatible with: Bell Lab's Unix 7
  • References:
  1. Barak A. and Litman A., MOS - A Multicomputer Distributed Operating System. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 725-737, Aug. 1985.
  2. Barak A. and Shiloh A., A Distributed Load-balancing Policy for a Multicomputer. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 15, No. 9, pp. 901-913, Sept. 1985.

Version 2

  • Development(started/completed): 1983-84
  • Name: MOS
  • Machines: CADMUS/PCS MC68K
  • Compatible with: Bell Lab's Unix 7 with some BSD 4.1 extensions
  • References:
  1. Barak A. and Paradise G. O., MOS - Scaling Up UNIX. Proc. Summer 1986 USENIX Conf., pp. 414-418, Atlanta, GA, June 1986.
  2. Barak A. and Paradise G. O., MOS - a Load Balancing UNIX. Proc. Autumn 86 EUUG Conf., pp. 273-280, Manchester, Sept. 1986.
  3. Barak A. and Malki D., Distributed Light Weight Processes in MOS, Proc. Autumn 88 EUUG Conf., pp. 335-343, Cascais, Oct. 1988

Version 3

  • Development (started/completed): 1987-88
  • Name: NSMOS
  • Machines: NS32332
  • Compatible with: AT&T Unix system V release 2
  • Reference:
  1. Barel A., NSMOS - MOS Port to the National's 32000 Family Architecture. Proc. 2nd Israel Conf. Computer Systems and Soft. Eng., Tel-Aviv, May 1987

Version 4

  • Development (started/completed): 1988
  • Name: MOSIX
  • Machines: VAX-780 + VAX-750
  • Compatible with: AT&T Unix System V release 2

Version 5

  • Development (started/completed): 1988-89
  • Name: MOSIX
  • Machines: NS32532
  • Compatible with: AT&T Unix System V release 2
  • References:
  1. Barak A. and Wheeler R., MOSIX: An Integrated Multiprocessor UNIX. Proc. Winter 1989 USENIX Conf., pp. 101-112, San Diego, CA, Feb. 1989.
  2. Barak A., Shiloh A. and Wheeler R., Flood Prevention in the MOSIX Load-Balancing Scheme, IEEE-TCOS Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 24-27, Winter 1989.
  3. Barak A., Guday S. and Wheeler R., The MOSIX Distributed Operating System, Load Balancing for UNIX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 672, Springer-Verlag, May 1993.

Version 6

  • Development (started/completed): 1991-93
  • Name: MOSIX
  • Machines: 486/Pentium
  • Compatible with: BSD/OS
  • References:
  1. Barak A. and Yarom Y., Transparent Process Migration in a Network of Workstations, Proc. Workshop on Distributed Algorithms and Systems, St. Malo, Oct. 1994.
  2. A. Barak, O. La'adan and Y. Yarom, The NOW MOSIX and its Preemptive Process Migration Scheme, Bull. IEEE Tech. Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environments, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 5-11, Summer 1995.
  3. Barak A. and La'adan O., Experience with a Scalable PC Cluster for HPC, Proc. Cluster Computing Conf. (CCC 97), Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, March 1997.
  4. Barak A. and Braverman A., Memory Ushering in a Scalable Computing Cluster, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Vol. 22, No. 3-4, pp. 175-182, Aug. 1998.
  5. Barak A., Gilderman I. and Metrik I., Performance of the Communication Layers of TCP/IP with the Myrinet Gigabit LAN, Computer Communications, Vol. 22, No. 11, July 1999.

Version 7

  • Development (started/completed): 1998-99
  • Name: MOSIX
  • Machines: x86
  • Compatible with: LINUX 2.2
  • Reference:
  1. Barak A., La'adan O. and Shiloh A., Scalable Cluster Computing with MOSIX for LINUX. Proc. 5-th Annual Linux Expo, pp. 95-100, Raleigh, NC, May 1999.

Version 8

  • Development(started/completed): 2000-01
  • Name: MOSIX
  • Machines: x86
  • Compatible with: LINUX 2.4
  • References:
  1. Amar L., Barak A. and Shiloh A., The MOSIX Parallel I/O System for Scalable I/O Performance. Proc. 14-th IASTED Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2002), pp. 495-500, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 2002.

Version 9

  • Development (started/completed): 2003
  • Name: MOSIX (Version 1)
  • Machines: x86
  • Compatible with: LINUX 2.4
  • Reference:
  1. Amar L., Barak A. and Shiloh A., The MOSIX Direct File System Access Method for Supporting Scalable Cluster File Systems. Cluster Computing, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 141-150, April 2004.

Version 10

  • Development (started/completed): 2004-06
  • Name: MOSIX (Version 2)
  • Machines: x86
  • Compatible with: Linux-2.6
  • References:
  1. Barak A., Shiloh A. and Amar L., An Organizational Grid of Federated MOSIX Clusters. Proc. 5th IEEE Int. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'05), pp. 350-357, Cardiff, May 2005.
  2. Amar L., Barak A., Levy E. and Okun M., An On-line Algorithm for Fair-Share Node Allocations in a Cluster. Proc. 7th IEEE Int. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'07), pp. 83-91, Rio de Janeiro, May 2007.
  3. Meiri E. and Barak A., Parallel Compression of Correlated Files, IEEE Cluster 2007, pp.285-292, Austin, TX, Sept. 2007.
  4. Maoz T., Barak A. and Amar L., Combining Virtual Machine Migration with Process Migration for HPC on Multi-Clusters and Grids, IEEE Cluster 2008, pp. 89-98, Tsukuba, Sept. 2008
  5. Amar L., Barak A., Drezner Z. and Okun M., Randomized Gossip Algorithms for Maintaining a Distributed Bulletin Board with Guaranteed Age Properties, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, InterScience, Wiley, March 2009.

MOSIX Reach the Clouds

  • Development (started/completed): 2008-09
  • Name: MRC
  • Machines: x86/i64
  • Compatible with: Linux-2.6

MOSIX Virtual OpenCL

  • Development (started/completed): 2009-10
  • Name: MOSIX VCL
  • Machines: x86/i64 with GPU devices
  • Compatible with: Linux-2.6 and OpenCL-1.0
  • Reference:
  1. Barak A., Ben-Nun T., Levy E. and Shiloh A., A Package for OpenCL Based Heterogeneous Computing on Clusters with Many GPU Devices, Workshop on Parallel Programming and Applications on Accelerator Clusters (PPAAC), IEEE Cluster 2010, Crete, Sept. 2010.
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