OSL Mission
The OSL mission is to develop science and technology for
computing with large-scale and pervasive hardware and software systems,
to enable more productive computing and software development, and to
foster economic development in the State of Indiana.
Work in the Open Systems Laboratory (OSL) is motivated by the changing
nature of modern information technology systems.
For pervasive systems to interoperate seamlessly, standardization
is needed. All pervasive systems need to talk the same language.
Standardization is complicated in today's market-based economy but can
arise in several ways: government mandate, industrial monopoly, or open
standards, to name a few. As might be expected, the OSL advocates the
latter and is working to create open source software tools to bring this
about.
Overview
The Open Systems Lab (OSL) is one of the Pervasive Technology Laboratories at
Indiana University. We conduct
research on science and technology for computing with large-scale and
pervasive hardware and software systems.
Current research projects at the OSL are focused in these core
areas:
Next generation programming tools & languages. To
enable large-scale (millions of lines of code) pervasive software
applications to be developed more easily, and to enable them to be
reliable, secure, and high-performance, the OSL is developing
next-generation programming tools and languages.
Parallel and distributed computing. The OSL is
currently spearheading several efforts in high-performance parallel and
distributed computing to improve reliability, availability, and
scalability of these environments.
Collaborative software engineering. Software
development at almost any scale is becoming increasingly collaborative
and at the same time increasingly distributed. The OSL has created a
development environment (SourceGrid) to enable this new kind of
software development.
Automatic device configuration. As the number of
mobile devices we carry grows, it is desirable (for convenience and for
security) for these devices to be able automatically configure
themselves based on context and user preferences.
Applications. The OSL is collaborating with several
research groups at IU and elsewhere to apply our research results to
other scientific projects. Collaborators include the IU BioComplexity
Institute, Informatics, SLIS, and UITS.
News
PFunc, a new library for task parallelism
I am happy to announce the release of PFunc, short for Parallel
Functions, a lightweight and portable library that provides C and C++
APIs to express task parallelism.
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OSCAR 6.0 is out
This version provides the latest modifications which will ease future developments.
On the roadmap, we already plan to include many project on which
students worked during the summer 2008, including a benchmarking
framework, a monitoring framework, and mechanisms to deal with specific
NFS configuration.
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Cluster Challenge at SC'08
The "ClusterMeisters," a team of students from the Indiana University
School of Informatics and Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) were
awarded first place in the SC08 Cluster Challenge, an international
collegiate competition for leading-edge, energy-efficient high
performance computing.
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CorePy 1.0 Release (x86, Cell BE, BSD!)
We are pleased to announce the latest release of CorePy. CorePy is a
complete system for developing machine-level programs in Python.
CorePy lets developers build and execute assembly-level programs
interactively from the Python command prompt, embed them directly in
Python applications, or export them to standard assembly languages.
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MPI.NET 1.0 released
The first major release of MPI.NET is now available, providing an
efficient, easy-to-use interface to the Message Passing Interface (MPI)
for C# and the rest of the .NET family of languages.
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Open MPI v1.2.6 released
The Open MPI Team, representing a consortium of research, academic,
and industry partners, is pleased to announce the release of Open MPI
version 1.2.6.
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Boost 1.35.0 released
The latest version of Boost, the premier collection of free,
peer-reviewed, open-source C++ libraries, is now available.
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GCC 4.3.0 Released with C++0x Support
The GNU project has released version 4.3 of the GNU Compiler Collection,
containing experimental support for several features from the upcoming C++
standard, C++0x.
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MPI.NET 0.6.0 Now Available
MPI.NET provides a high-performance, easy-to-use MPI library for C# and
Microsoft's other .NET languages, making it possible to write parallel
programs running on the .NET platform for Microsoft Windows clusters.
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MPI.NET Technology Preview Released
MPI.NET provides a high-performance, easy-to-use MPI library for C# and
Microsoft's other .NET languages, making it possible to write parallel
programs running on the .NET platform for Microsoft Windows clusters.
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NetGauge 2.0rc2 Released
Torsten released Netgauge 2.0rc2 at hte HPCC'07 in Houston.
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LibNBC Released
Torsten released LibNBC stable to the public at the EuroPVM 2007 in
Paris.
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Open MPI 1.2.4 Released
The Open MPI Team, representing a consortium of research, academic, and
industry partners, is pleased to announce the release of Open MPI
version 1.2.4.
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BoostCon 2007
BoostCon 2007 will be held May 14-18, 2007, in Aspen, Colorado.
BoostCon will bring together Boost users and developers for a week-long
conference, containing everything from hands-on introductions to Boost
and C++0x to advanced tutorials in Boost libraries and Boost coding
sprints.
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ConceptGCC 4.3.0 Alpha 6 released
ConceptGCC is a prototype implementation of the Concepts language
feature for C++0x
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Chris was a runner-up (top 5) in the elevator pitch
competition
Chris was a runner-up (top 5) in the elevator pitch competition at the
Indiana Collegiate Entrepreneur Bootcamp in Indianapolis.
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Chris won the best post award
Chris won the best poster award at the Computer Science and Informatics
Graduate Research Poster Session
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OSCAR 5.0 is released
The OSCAR Team proudly released version 5.0 of OSCAR with a great thanks
to the OSCAR developers. This release has a lot of good features and has
fixed many bugs making a significant difference from the older version
(e.g., OSCAR 4.2).
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Presentation at SciPy2006
Chris Muelller presented "Synthetic Programming with Python" and
Doug gregor presented "Boost Graph Library" at SciPy2006.
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Open MPI v1.1 released
The Open MPI Team is pleased to release version 1.1 of Open MPI.
This release contains many new features, performance enhancement, and
stability bug fixes.
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LAM/MPI 7.1.2 released
The LAM Team from the Open Systems Lab at Indiana University is
pleased to announce the release of LAM/MPI version 7.1.2.
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Portable Linux Processor Affinity (PLPA) v1.0 released for
community feedback
The PLPA is intended to
provide a source- and binary-portable mechanism for developers
wishing to use processor affinity on Linux platforms.
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Portable Linux Processor Affinity (PLPA) v0.9a1 released for
community feedback
The PLPA is intended to
provide a source- and binary-portable mechanism for developers
wishing to use processor affinity on Linux platforms.
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Open MPI v1.0.1 released
The Open MPI Team is pleased to release version 1.0.1 of Open MPI.
This is primarily a bug-fix release.
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Boost Graph Library Python bindings version 0.9 was released
on 23 Nov 2005
Boost Graph Library Python binding was relased version 0.9 on 23 Nov
2005
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Open MPI v1.0 was released on 17 Nov 2005
The Open MPI Team is pleased to announced the release of Open MPI
version 1.0.
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Parallel debugging BOF at SC 2005
Jeff Squyres will be hosting a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) on parallel
debugging at SC 2005.
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LCSD'05 workshop
Library-Centric Software Design, LCSD'05 workshop is held at October
6th and the abstract submission is available on the
https://www.osl.iu.edu/conferences/lcsd05.
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1.0 release candidate for Open MPI available
Ramping up to v1.0, release candidate tarballs are now available.
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Contact
For information on economic development, partnerships, tours, and
other issues related to Pervasive Technology Labs or its individual
laboratories please contact:
Open Systems Laboratory
150 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7104
(812) 855-6486
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