Year
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Month
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Events
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Cluster and Demo System
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1992
|
6
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RWCP Started
|
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1993-
1994
|
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Research and Development
of Operating System for Massively Parallel Computers
|
|
1995
|
4
|
Started
Research and Development of Cluster System Software
|
|
8
|
PM Prototype and MPC++ MTTL Prototype Developed
|
RWC Workstartion Cluster I
5 node SS20s 75MHz, Myrinet, SunOS 4.1.x
|
12
|
SCore-D Prototype Developed
|
|
|
1996
|
3
|
|
RWC Workstartion Cluster II
36 node SS20s 75MHz, Myrinet, SunOS 4.1.x
|
8
|
PM achieved over 100MB/s communication bandwidth on PC Cluster I prototype
|
|
10
|
|
RWC PC Cluster I
32 node Pentium 166MHz, Myrinet, NetBSD
|
11
|
Demonstrated RWC PC Cluster I at Super Computing 96(Pittsburgh)
|
|
|
1997
|
2
|
MPICH-PM Developed
|
RWC SMP Cluster I (Quad Pentium PRO 4 node, Myrinet),
COMPaS (Quad Pentium PRO 8 node, Myrinet)
|
9
|
PM 1.2 Zero copy Communication Facility Developed
|
|
10
|
Zero copy communication was supported on MPICH-PM
|
RWC PC Cluster II
64 node Pentium PRO 200MHz, Myrinet, NetBSD
|
11
|
Demonstrated RWC PC Cluster II at Super Computing 97(San Jose)
|
|
12
|
SCore on Linux(i386, Alpha) Developed
|
GigaE PM testbed
|
|
1998
|
1
|
Released SCore Version 1.0 (Linux)
|
RWC PC Cluster IIa for PAPIA
64 node Pentium PRO 200MHz, Myrinet, NetBSD
|
3
|
Released SCore Version 2.0 (Linux)
|
|
4
|
PAPIA WWW service started on SCore
|
|
5
|
Real-time Electric Power System Simulator Prototype Developed
|
|
6
|
Released SCore Version 2.2 (Linux)
|
|
7
|
MPICH/CLUMP (MPICH for SMP Cluster) developed
|
Expanded RWC PC Cluster II
128 node Pentium PRO 200MHz, Myrinet, Linux
|
8
|
SCASH (Software DSM) developed
|
RWC Alpha Cluster I
32 node Alpha 21164 500MHz, Myrinet, Linux
|
9
|
GigaE PM developed
|
|
10
|
MPC++ worked Heterogeneous CPUs
|
|
11
|
Demonstrated RWC PC Cluster II(128 node) and RWC Alpha Cluster I at Super Computing 98(Orlando)
- Released SCore Version 2.4 (Linux)
|
|
11
|
Checkpoint Facility on SCore-D developed
|
|
|
1999
|
3
|
PM-UDP developed
|
|
6
|
Released SCore Version 2.4.1 (Linux)
|
|
7
|
GigaE-PM II(PM/Ethernet prototype) developed
|
|
9
|
PMv2(PM/Myrinet, PM/Ethernet, PM/UDP, PM/Shmem) and SCore-D for Heterogeneous CPUs(i386, Alpha), Heterogeneous Network(Myrinet, Ethernet, UDP/IP, SMP) developed
|
RWC SCore Cluster I
16 node Dual Pentium III 500MHz + 16 node Single Alpha 21264 500MHz, Myrinet + Gigabit Ethernet + Fast Ethernet, Linux
|
11
|
Demonstrated RWC SCore Cluster I(16 node PCs+ 16 node Alpha) をSuper Computing 99(Portland)
- Released SCore Version 3.0beta (Linux)
|
|
|
2000
|
3
|
Released SCore Version 3.0 (Linux)
|
|
5
|
PM/Ethernet Network Trunking Facility developed
|
|
6
|
Released SCore Version 3.1 (Linux)
|
|
6
|
PBS/SCore developed
|
|
8
|
PM/Myrinet for Myrinet2000 SAN developed
|
RWC SCore Cluster II
66 node Dual Pentium III 800MHz, Myrinet + Myrinet2000 + Gigabit Ethernet + Fast Ethernet, Linux
|
9
|
RWC SCore Cluster II achieved 64.8GFlops of Linpack performance
-Omni OpenMP SCore developed
-The first SCore Users meeting at Oxford University
|
|
10
|
Released SCore Version 3.2 (Linux)
|
|
11/6
|
Released SCore Version 3.3 (Linux)
|
|
11
|
Demonstrated RWC SCore Cluster II at Super Computing 2000(Dallas)
- RWC SCore Cluster II ranked # 395 on 2000/11 TOP500 list
|
|
11/30
|
Released SCore Version 3.3.1 (Linux)
|
|
12
|
|
RWC SCore Cluster III Prototype
16 node Dual Pentium III 933MHz, Myrinet2000 + Dual Fast Ethernet, Linux
|
|
2001
|
2
|
PM/Myrinet Reliable protocol for Myrinet2000 Serial(Fiber) developed
|
|
3
|
|
RWC SCore Cluster III
512 node Dual Pentium III 933MHz (1024PE), Myrinet2000 + Dual Fast Ethernet, Linux
|
4
|
RWC SCore Cluster III acheived 548 GFlops(960PE) of Linpack performance
|
|
5
|
Preparing Committee of PC Cluster Consoutium Establishment started
-PVM/SCore developed
|
|
6
|
Demonstrated RWC SCore Cluster III prototype at ISC2001(Heiderberg)
-Released SCore Version 4.0 (Linux)
-RWC SCore Cluster III ranked # 36 prize in 2001/6 TOP500 list
-The second SCore Users Meeting in Heiderberg
|
|
7
|
RWC SCore Cluster III demonstration
|
|
9
|
RWC SCore Cluster IIIe achived 613.8 GFlops(1012PE) of Linpack performance
-PM/SCI developed
|
|
10
|
PC Cluster Consortium Established
-Transfered the copyrights of SCore Cluster System Software from RWCP to PC Cluster Consortium
-Released SCore Version 4.2 (Linux)
|
|
11
|
Demonstrated at Super Computing 2001(Denver)
-RWC SCore Cluster IIIe ranked # 40 prize on 2001/11 TOP500 list
-Released SCore Version 4.2.1 (Linux)
|
|
|
2002
|
3
|
The first PC Cluster Symposium
-Released SCore Version 5.0 (Linux)
|
|
3
|
RWCP Ended
|
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