HMC CS 156 Parallel & Real-Time Computing Links

Quick References

• Hrothgar, HMC Beowulf Cluster (http://wiglaf.math.hmc.edu)
• PP home page
• Errata for PP (pdf file, 6 or more pages)
• Glossary
• Glossary, version 2

Libraries and Tools

• Integrated Net Analyzer
• MPI
  • MPI function Index
  • MPI User Guide
  • MPICH Home page
  • MPI, The Complete Reference (book on-line)
  • MPI Course Notes
  • Mississippi State MPI Page
  • MPI Performance Comparison on Distributed and Shared Memory Machines
• PVM
  • PVM examples
• Threads
• Getting Started with POSIX Threads
• Threads FAQ
• Solaris threads
• Applications
• Threadmon
• Inside Solaris articles:
  • part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7
  • Priorities revisited
  • Sleep and Wakeup
  • Index to SunWorld Columns
• OpenMP
• PGAPack: Parallgl Genetic Algorithms for Matlab
• Parallel Matlab
• VAST-F Parallel

Reference Books

• Parallel Computing Works (ON-LINE), Geoffrey Fox, et al.
• Designing and Building Parallel Programs (ON-LINE), Ian Foster, Addison-Wesley, 1995. (errata)
• Michael J. Quinn. Parallel computing: Theory and practice. Second Edition. McGraw-Hill, 1994.
• Joseph Já Já. An introduction to parallel algorithms, Addision-Wesley, 1992.
• Guy E. Blelloch. Vector models for data-parallel computing, MIT Press, 1990.
• Vipin Kumar, et al., Introduction to parallel computing, design and analysis of algorithms, Benjamin/Cummings, 1994.
• F. Thomas Leighton, Introduction to Parallel Algorithms and Architectures: Arrays, Trees, and Hypercubes
• Geoffrey Fox, et al., Parallel computing works!, Morgan-Kauffman, 1994. (On-Line Version)
• Dimitri P. Bertsekas and John N. Tsitsiklis, Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods, Athena Scientific, 1997.
• Michael Wolfe, High Performance Compilers for Parallel Computing
• Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software ApproachDavid E. Culler, Jaswinder Pal Singh, with Anoop Gupta
• Real-Time Systems, C.M. Krishna and Kang G. Shin, McGraw-Hill, 1997.
• Books and Journals on Distributed and Parallel Computing

Misc. Documents

• Parallel Computing Links
• Parallel Computing Archive
• History of Parallel Computing, 1955-1993
• PRAM Simulations: #1 | #2 | #3
• Formal Methods for the Specification and Design of Real-Time Safety Critical Systems (Jonathan Ostroff)
• Real-Time Terms
• Distributing Scientific Computation

Applications

• Monte Carlo Simulation for Statistical Physics
• Iterative equation solvers, FFT
• Traveling Salesperson
  • Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem
  • TSPLIB
  • TSPBIB
  • TSP Links
• NP Optimization Problems
• Ant Colony Optimzation
• N-body problem
• Berkeley, CS267
• From "Parallel Computing Works"
• CMU Parallel N-body using NESL
• Other N-body Sources
• Functional Algorithm Simulation of the Fast Multipole Method: Architectural Implications
• A Parallel Adaptive Fast Multipole algorithm for N-body problems
• Parallelization of the Fast Multipole Algorithm: Algorithm and Architecture Design
• Parallel Genetic Algorithms
• Parallel Sorting Algorithm Demos
• Parallel Algorithm Animations

Machines

• Top 500 Supercomputing Sites
• Beowulf machines
• Cray T3E
• SB PRAM
• IBM SP
• Intel
• Meiko CS-2
• SGI Origin
• Tera MTA