This proposal is the WWW document
http://aggregate.org/EXHIBITS/SC02/ and contains
links to a number of our WWW sites, documents, photos, etc.
Virtually everything we do is linked from http://aggregate.org/. The above photo shows our
current lab configuration at the University Of Kentucky, the
current lead institution for The Aggregate. From left to right:
results of a CFD code are displayed on a projection video wall
driven by a cluster of Athlons; KLAT2 (Kentucky Linux Athlon
Testbed 2), the world's first Flat Neighborhood Network (FNN)
machine and also the primary development system for our various
3DNow! accelerated libraries; Opus, a video wall driven
by a K6-2 cluster, displays an MPEG movie; a battery-powered
cluster of Athlon laptops serves as a video wall displaying
another set of CFD results; and Galugtica, a rag-tag fleet of
surplus machines driving another video wall, serves as a
development cluster for the student Linux User's Group.
The Aggregate refers to a collection of researchers and the technologies that they use to make the components of a parallel computer work better together. Since before we built the first Linux PC cluster supercomputer, we have been considering all aspects of Compilers, Hardware Architectures, and Operating Systems (KAOS) together, optimizing system performance rather than performance of the individual parts.
This year, led by the University of Kentucky, The Aggregate will again present research from several universities. Material presented will range from Flat Neighborhood Network support and the Cluster Design Rules software tool through the results of specific scientific applications computed using cluster technologies developed by The Aggregate.
Prof. Hank Dietz University of Kentucky College of Engineering Electrical Engineering Department 453 Anderson Hall Lexington, KY 40506-0046
The only thing set in stone is our name.