Useful HPC Links

High Performance Fortran (HPF):

• The HPF Forum home page.
• ``High Performance Fortran in Practice,'' a tutorial by Chuck Koelbel.

Message-Passing Interface (MPI):

• The MPI home page.
• A list of tutorials.
• Slides from a tutorial by David Walker.
• A handy index of MPI procedure calls.

Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM):

• The PVM home page.
• PVM source code.
• A nice introduction to PVM programming.
• An on-line version of the book PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine, by Geist, et al.
• Slides from an introduction to PVM by Robert Manchek.
• A recent paper on PVM, ``The PVM Concurrent Computing System: Evolution, Experiences, and Trends,'' by Sunderam, Geist, Dongarra, and Manchek.
• The PVM recent highlights page.

Active research groups and centers:

• CRPC: Center for Research on Parallel Computation (Rice).
• CSCC: Concurrent SuperComputing Consortium.
• CTC: Cornell Theory Center.
• NCSA: National Center for Supercomputer Applications (Illinois).
• NERSC: National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (Livermore).
• NPAC: Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (Syracuse).

Educational resources:

• Cornell Theory Center's Virtual Workshop program is offering some excellent materials on Parallel Programming with Message-Passing Libraries.
• A course with related content, CS267 at UC Berkeley.

Hardware:

• Intel Paragon:
  • Intel's Paragon page.
  • A nice tutorial from Norway (postscript).
  • Information on the Paragon at Virginia Tech.
  • On-line manuals from Purdue.

• IBM SP2:
  • IBM's parallel computing page.
  • Information on the SP2 at Virginia Tech.

Misc:

• HPCC NSE: the HPCC National Software Exchange.
• A nice parallel computing archive and a big list of parallel computing sites.
• National MetaCenter for Computational Science and Engineering.
• National Coordination Office for HPCC where you can read an interesting report of goals and accomplishments (the so-called 1996 blue book).
• A useful glossary of HPCC terminology.
• Parallel Tools Consortium.
• HPC++.
• The Pablo performance analysis environment.