Introduction
UML
Distributed Comp.
Exercises

• SETI@Home - SETI data distributed to programs running as background screensavers on PCs. (Does not use Java.)
• DataGrid Project - the seeks to develop scientific data analysis techniques with distributed computing;
• Distributed.net - "Internet's first general-purpose distributed computing project." Focus has been on decryption projects.
• Climateprediction.net - distributed tools for climate study.
• The Earth Simulator - "The World's Fastest Supercomputer System for Resolving Global Environmental Problems Completed", NEC, March 8, 2002.
  
• Blue Gene - IBM project to use massively parallel systems "to advance our understanding of important biological processes such as protein folding."
  
• Virginia Tech Terascale Computing Facility
  
• ORNL – The National Leadership Computing Facility project:
  
  • “Department of energy awards $25 million to Oak Ridge National lab to lead effort in building world’s largest computer,” ORNL press release, May 12, 2004.
    
  • “DOE leadership-class computing capability for science will be developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,” DOE press release, May 12, 2004.
    
• The Top 500 List - "a list of the sites operating the 500 most powerful computer systems". Updated twice per year.
  
• PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) project
  

Most recent update: Oct. 17, 2005