GAMMA: The Genoa Active Message MAchine

GAMMA: The Genoa Active Message MAchine
http://www.disi.unige.it/project/gamma/

What is GAMMA?

* A low latency, high throughput communication system for clusters of PCs
* Supports both single and dual CPU processing nodes (Intel IA-32 or amd64 x86-64)
* Runs on Gigabit Ethernet
* SPMD parallel processing with message passing
* Good programmability thanks to fairly high abstraction level
* Reliable thanks to mechanisms for retransmission of missing packets
* Implemented as a network device driver for Linux 2.6, and released under GNU GPL