| 30th September 1998 | Version 1.4 is a major release of the Oxford BSP toolset. New implementations available in this release are: (1) an improved TCP/IP and UDP/IP implementation of BSPlib that enables a homogeneous cluster of workstations to be used as a parallel machine; and (2) a shared memory implementation for Windows NT. |
| 30th September 1998 | A low-latency UDP-like implementation for 3Com 3C905B Ethernet cards connected by switched 100Mbps Ethernet. The following paper describes our experience with the dedicated cluster: ``BSP Clusters: high performance, reliable and very low cost'' Stephen R. Donaldson, Jonathan M.D. Hill, and David B. Skillicorn. Technical Report PRG-TR-5-98, Programming Research Group, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, September 1998. (Compress Postscript, 271K) |
| 9th February 1998 | Radu Calinescu has developed a menu-driven tool for the automatic parallelisation of nested loops in the bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) model. The tool, BSPscheduler, generates C plus BSPlib code. |
| 2nd December 1997 | Three new papers on predictable (i.e., stable) communication in BSPlib. |
| 27th November 1997 | Version 1.3 is a major release of the Oxford BSP toolset. The distribution includes a TCP/IP implementation of BSPlib that enables a homogeneous cluster of workstations to be used as a parallel machine. The distribution includes a load manager that ensures processes are started on the least loaded processors in a cluster of workstations. In the next release of the library, a general purpose process migration and checkpointing facility will be provided that enables run-time load balancing and fault tolerance of BSPlib jobs. |
| 27th November 1997 | Alex Gerbessiotis has made available the following BSP algorithms written using BSPlib: (1) a number of Matrix multiplication algorithms; (2) primitive operations including variants of broadcasting (two-phase, tree-based) and parallel prefix (two-phase, d-ary tree); (3) Gauss-Jordan based matrix inversion and LU decomposition algorithms. |
| 24th October 1997 | Tutorial slides and programming exercises on BSP have been made available. |
| 27th September 1997 | A new release of the library is planned for 21st November 1997. The release will contain an updated TCP/IP implementation that contains a load manager for managing jobs among a cluster of workstations. |
| 24th September 1997 | BSP cost parameters for the TCP/IP implementation of BSPlib running on a Pentium Pro NOW connected by a 10Mbit Ethernet. |
| 4th August 1997 | Version 1.1.2 is a minor release of the Oxford BSP toolset. It contains a beta release of a TCP/IP version of the library (see the user guide), and a version of the library for the Transtech Paramid. This release includes some bug fixes to v1.1 (see the bug report list for more details). | 16th June 1997 | Everything! The first official release of the Oxford BSP toolset and associated WWW pages. |