- Gelato Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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- The Gelato FAQ page where you can get help navigating
the Gelato portal, learn more about the Gelato Federation, and find answers to technical questions about Linux on Itanium
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- Mailing Lists
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- Gelato-technical mailing list to discuss Linux/ia64.
- Discussion of Linux on the IA-64 processor.
- Linux kernel discussions on the IA-64 platform.
- Gelato Scalability Focus Group mailing list.
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- Events and Conferences
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- Gelato Events. Check out the details about future and past conferences and tradeshows attended by the Gelato Federation and Gelato Members.
- LWN Community Calendar. A listing of Linux events and conferences.
- HPC Events. HPCwire's list of upcoming HPC events and conferences.
- Primeur Magazine Calendar. Primeur's list of upcoming Conferences and events in supercomputing and Grid computing.
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- Useful Information on the Web
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- Intel
Itanium architecture specifications.
- IA-64 specific Linux kernel archives.
- LinuxHPC.org. This site is a community-based portal
providing information on Linux high performance computing and anything related.
- HPC Wire Magazine. HPCwire is an electronic worldwide publication
for all aspects of the High Performance Computing industry.
- Primeur Monthly Magazine. The monthly news service for th European HPCN community.
- Intel IA-64 homepage. Contains
links to architecture documents, software conventions, and other information.
- Intel Itanium 2 Processor homepage. Contains
product details and related information about the Itnaium 2 processor.
- Intel Developers Forum.
- Gelato@UNSW WiKi. Maintained
by Gelato Member the University of New South Wales, this WiKi is a collaborative documentation for sharing experiences with the IA64 Linux kernel and its related software.
- INRIA's Gelato-related Website. Maintained by Gelato Member INRIA, this Website contains information on INRIA's Gelato-related activities.
- OpenIMPACT at UIUC. Maintained by Gelato Member University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this Website contains information about the OpenIMPACT project, an open-source Itanium compiler released under Gelato.
- A-Star (BII). Maintained by Gelato Member BII, this Website contains information on BII's Gelato-related activities.
- Gelato Waterloo. Maintained by Gelato Member University of Waterloo, this Website contains information on the university's Gelato-related projects and news.
- Gelato Scalability Focus Group Wiki. This Website contains information on Gelato's Scalability Focus Group activities.
- ZDNet's Itanium 2 Research Resources. This page contains some key white papers and case studies to help people understand how to leverage the power and versatility
of the Itanium 2 chip for their enterprise or organization. Free membership registration is required to view the complete articles.
- User-space Device Drivers. An easy-to-understand article from LWN.net about User-space based on a presentation made by Peter Chubb (UNSW) at the January 2004 Linux.Conf.au.
- Intel's Itanium 2 Status/Roadmap Announcement. This is a research brief written by Clabby Analytics in January 2004 about the status of Itanium 2. Click on the link with this title to download the PDF.
- 64-bit Computing Relative Performance. This is an research brief written by Joe Clabby of Clabby Analytics in February 2004 about evaluation criteria for 64-bit servers. Click on the link with this title to download the PDF.
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- Books
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- "IA-64 Linux Kernel: Design and Implementation" by
David Mosberger and Stéphane Eranian, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-061014-3
- "Programming Itanium-based Systems" by
Walter Triebel, Joe Bissell and Rick Booth, Intel Press, ISBN 0-97-028462-4
- "IA-64 and Elementary Functions: Speed and Precision" by
Peter Markstein, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-018348-2
- "Itanium Architecture for Programmers: Understanding 64-bit
Processors and EPIC Principles", by James S. Evans and Gregory L.
Trimper, Prentice-Hall PTR, ISBN 0-13-101372-6
- "Itanium Rising: Breaking Through Moore's Second Law of Computing Power", by Jerry Huck and Jim Carlson. Prentice-Hall PTR, ISBN 0-13-046415-5
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- Technical Papers
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- Searching
for optimal performance on IPF/Linux. (PDF)
- A
Methodology for using the Itanium 2 Performance Counters
for Bottleneck Analysis. (PDF)
- A Cookbook to Build Cross-compilers for IA64 Code on IA32 Machines. (PDF)
- IMPACT Advanced Compiler Technology research papers.
- IMPACT Advanced Compiler Technology publications. Links to journal, conference and technical papers written by the IMPACT team.
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- Presentations
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- Adding Value through Linux Standard Base (LSB).(PDF) A
presentation by Stuart Anderson of the Free Standards Group (FSG) and Mats Wichmann of Intel Corporation given at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
- Filesystem-related Work at UNSW.(PDF) A presentation by Peter Chubb (UNSW) regarding current filesystem-related work at UNSW
given at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
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- Compilers
- OpenIMPACT compiler seminar. Slides from the OpenIMPACT seminar at HP
Labs in California, USA on August 8, 2003. The OpenIMAPCT team is
also soliciting suggestions from the community for applications or libraries you would like to see compiled with OpenIMPACT. If the performance of
your work is dependent on a particular application or library, drop them a note at OpenImpact@gelato.uiuc.edu.
- Overview of compiler activities at Institute for System Programming of RAS.(PDF) A slide
presentation from Arutyun Avetisyan, Russian Academy of Science (RAS), from the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting as part of the Gelato Compiler Focus Group discussion.
- OpenIMPACT Overview.(PDF) A slide
presentation from Wen-mei Hwu (UIUC) regarding an overview of OpenIMPACT compiler activities as given at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
- CERN's IPF Compiler Tests.(PDF) A presentation by Sverre Jarp (CERN) regarding results from
CERN's IPF compiler tests as given at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
- OpenIMPACT at System Library and Kernel Levels.(PDF) A presentation by Nacho Navarro (UPC/UIUC) regarding
the OpenIMPACT compiler at system library and kernel levels given at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
- Research on Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) and
Thread Level Parallelism (TLP).(PDF) A presentation regarding current research on ILP and TLP given by Weimin Zheng of Tsinghua University at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
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- Clustering
- Linux Scalability in a Box (SIAB).(PDF) A proposal for
the Gelato Scalability in a Box Focus Group charter as presented by Jeanne Colon-Bonet (HP) and Ping-Hui Kao (HP) at
the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
- Gelato Cluster Focus Group Overview.(PDF) A
presentation by Jim Kasdorf (PSC) regarding the Gelato Cluster Focus Group and its activities given at
the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
- CLIC: Cluster Linux pour le Calul.(PDF) Slides from Bruno Richard (INRIA)
at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting concerning INRIA Grenoble's clustering activities.
- Proboscis: Flexible support for cluster storage services.(PDF) Slides from
Bruno Richard (INRIA) at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting about INRIA's current and
future development for a clustering storage solution.
- Cluster Scalability and Performance.(PDF) Slides from
Neil Gorsuch (NCSA) at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting concerning NCSA activities as part of its membership in Gelato's "cluster scalability and performance" focus area.
- Clusterweb - A WEB-based cluster management interface.(PDF) The Russian Academy of Science (RAS)
cluster management tool presentation by Arutyun Avetisyan at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
- HPCS2 Update.(PDF) Slides on PNNL's clustering management tools and computing as created by R. Scott Studham
and presented by Jim Kasdorf (PSC) at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
- Emerging Standards: The Open Cluster Framework.(PDF) A presentation by Alan Robertson
of the IBM Linux Technology Center regarding defining standard APIs for clustering.
- Parallel Data Transfer Solutions for the Grid.(PDF) A presentation by Bruno Richard (INRIA)
as given at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting as part of the Gelato Parallel File System Focus Group Discussion.
- A Lustre Product for HPTC.(PDF) A presentation by Steve Rowan (HP) regarding the current status and future
of Lustre-based HP HPTC solutions given at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
- Karlsruhe's Clusterfile Parallel Filesystem.(PDF) A presentation by Florin Isaila (University of Karlsruhe) regarding that university's parallel filesystem solution as given at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
- Experiences with IA-64 Linux Clusters.(PDF) A presentation given at LinuxWorld New York 2004 by Lennart Johnsson regarding the cluster work done at the University of Houston, KTH, and PDC.
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- Performance
- Linux Kernel
Limits to Performance and Scalability.(PDF) A presentation on the enumeration of areas where the Linux Kernel should be
enhanced given by Peter Chubb (UNSW) at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
- Badger--Performance of MySQL on
Modern Computer Architectures.(PDF) A presentation regarding MySQL on Linux/IA64 optimization research results given by Phillippe Bonnet of the
University of Copenhagen (DIKU) at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
- Realizing IA64/Linux Performance Potential.(PDF) Rodney James of NCAR exposed performance issues
and proposed solutions for increasing Linux/IA64 performance during this presentation given at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
- A Survey of Performance Tools.(PDF) A survey of results of existing performance tools working on IA64
as presented by Brian Lynn (HP) at the October 2003 Gelato Strategy Council Meeting.
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- Software
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- The Gelato Community's index
of Linux on Itanium related software.
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- Linux/IA-64 Distributions
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- Debian GNU/Linux for IA-64. Free.
- SuSE Linux. Free for Download.
- Linux Distros.
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