Parallel Computing

• Theory
  • LLNL Tutorial on Parallel Computing
• Hardware
  • Chip Level
    • Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT)
    • Multi-Cores
  • Board Level
    • Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP)
    • cc-NUMA
  • Platform Level
    • High-end Servers
  • Supercomputers
  • MPP
• Software
  • Operating Systems
  • Languages
  • Applications

Distributed Computing

• Network Processing Applications
  • Process-based
    • Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
    • Java Remote Method Protocol (JRMP)
  • Object-based
    • DCOM / COM+
      [replaced by .NET Framework's WCF (see below)]
    • CORBA / IIOP
    • Java RMI [uses either JRMP or CORBA (called RMI-IIOP)]
  • (Mobile) Agent-based
    • IBM Aglets [built on Java RMI]
    • SUN Jini [built on Java RMI]
    • Secure Mobile Agents (SeMoA) [built on SOAP]
  • HTTP transport-based
    • XML-RPC [object-based built on RPC (well sort of)]
    • Apache XML-RPC [Java implementation of XML-RPC]
    • SOAP [derived from XML-RPC]
    • .NET Framework's WCF [built on SOAP (and COM+)]
• Clusters
  • Parallel Simulation
    • Beowulf
    • PVM
    • Open MPI
  • Data Distribution (with distributed processing)
    • hadoop
• Geographically Distributed (Grids)
  • BOINC (HTTP transport-based)

Smart Environments

• Aware Home

Computational Cognitive Architectures

This list contains only active projects that either have released or claimed to have developed a working modeling environment. A major architecture is defined as one that is actively being used by researchers at more than one university or lab.

• Major Architectures
  • ACT-R (Common Lisp based)
  • Java ACT-R (still experimental)
  • Soar (supports Java, C++, Tcl, and Python interfaces)
• Other Architectures
  • CHREST (new version under development)
  • Clarion (Java-based)
  • Icarus (code/programs have not been release, published information gives no indication of the maturity of its implementation)