These pages reflect the project status in late 1998. There are several areas that we are targetting to improve the capability of Alpha NT clusters. Message-passing performance is clearly an important issue. We are porting Illinois Fast Messages to the Alpha platform for NT and Linux.
Further details are on the networking page .
In order to be able to support NT clusters as centralised resources, remote access is an area that needs addressing. We are developing such software, as well as testing Microsoft's NT Services for UNIX pack, to allow secure command-line remote access. We are working to give users a level of service that they are used to having on proprietary supercomputer systems. This includes provision of batch scheduling and parallel development tools. This will be the first parallel development tool available for the Windows NT platform.