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• Name: Beowulf Project
  Website: http://www.beowulf.org/
  Contact: merk@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
  Description: Beowulf is a project to produce the software for off-the-shelf clustered workstations based on commodity PC-class hardware, a high-bandwidth internal network, and the Linux operating system.

• Name: Center for Wave Phenomena Linux Cluster Project
  Website: http://www.cwp.mines.edu/
  Contact: cwp@dix.mines.edu
  Description: CWP now has around 20 Pentiums running Linux/XFree86. The newer 200 Mhz chips crank out around 40 Mflops under gcc, with no pentium optimization and we compute on them in parallel with PVM and MPI.

• Name: KLAT2
  Website: http://aggregate.org/KLAT2/
  Contact: Dr. Hank Deitz
  KLAT2 -- the Kentucky Linux Athalon Testbed, a project at the University of Kentucky, is a 64+2 700MHz Athlon cluster using a variety of system hardware and software performance tricks, including a 264-NIC + 9 switch implementation of the new Flat Neighborhood network topology.

• Name: LAMDI Project
  Website: http://gasnet.med.yale.edu/lamdi/
  Contact: harms@mbnet.mb.ca
  Description: LAMDI is a proposed platform to provide an interface for software applications that can capture and store hospital patient data, do realtime model ing of data, control drug infusions, and have a customizeable user interface.

• Name: Linux-Equipped Astronauts Project (LEAP)
  Website: http://www.cantrip.org/leap.html
  Contact: ncm@nospam.cantrip.org
  Description: Seeks to provide ports to Linux of all the tools used by the Space Shuttle and International Space Station astronauts.

• Name: Linux Super Page
  Website: http://shimizu-lab.dt.u-tokai.ac.jp/lsp.html
  Contact: nshimizu_AT_keyaki.cc.u-tokai.ac.jp
  Description: This is a project to make Linux to use super-page feature of some processors. The matrix transpose benchmark runs 4 to 5 times faster than the normal kernel on an Alpha 21264A-667MHz machine. 18 percent higher performance is achieved on SPEC fp2K with this patch.

• Name: Parallel Processing Using Linux
  Website: http://yara.ecn.purdue.edu/~pplinux
  Contact: pplinux@ecn.purdue.edu
  Four types of parallel processing are under development: (1) SMP Pentium systems in which multiple processors share a single memory and bus interface within a single computer, (2) a group of machines interconnected by a network to form a parallel-processing cluster, (3) a Linux system as a "host" for a specialized attached parallel processor, and (4) SIMD parallelism within a register, which is facilitated by the MMX (MultiMedia eXtensions).

• Name: SETI@Home
  Website: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
  Description: SETI@home is a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of millions of Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data. There's a small but captivating possibility that your computer will detect the faint murmur of a civilization beyond Earth.

• Name: The SHRIMP Project
  Website: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/shrimp/
  Contact: skumar@cs.princeton.edu
  Description: SHRIMP (Scalable, High-Performance, Really Inexpensive Multi-Processor) is a parallel machine being designed and built in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University. Shrimp is built from highly-integrated, commodity parts. The computing nodes of SHRIMP are Pentium PCs, and the routing network is the same one used in the Intel Paragon. A network interface card is being designed to connects the PCs to the routing network, and software is also being designed to make SHRIMP a fully usable multicomputer.