Knowledge Base: Tutorials and Manuals

Tutorials and workshops SciNet User Tutorial SciNet GPU Workshop July 2010 Parallel Scientific Computing Workshop, SciNet, Aug 2009 Slides /Video IBM AIX Workshop, SciNet, Nov 2008 IBM MPI Workshop, SciNet, Feb 2009 IBM Compiler Workshop, SciNet, Feb 2009 External: Virtual School for CSE Free webinar-style courses (but must register): Petascale programming environments and tools, Jul 6–9, 2010 Big data for science, Jul 26–30, 2010 Proven algorithmic techniques for many-core processors, Aug 2–6, 2010 NVidia archived courses for GPGPU Programming LLNL MPI Tutorial This was the basis for the MPI workshop at SciNet. High Performance Computing Book Online version of an older O'Reilly book which covers the basics of (mostly serial) programming for performance. Covers the most important issues today very clearly. How to Write Fast Numerical Code Good introduction to thinking about performance.

Manuals GPC (Intel): C & C++ compiler Fortran compiler Intel Compiler Floating Point Consistency Math Kernel Library Math Kernel Library link line advisor Intel MPI library TCS (IBM): C compiler, language, optimization C++ compiler, language, optimization Fortran compiler language, optimization UPC compiler, language, optimization, library, user's guide, programmer's guide ESSL high performance math library V4 (V3) LoadLeveler: using & administering Performance tuning Parallel environment Cluster information center has more (also explains error codes!) Adaptive Computing/Cluster Resources: MOAB workload manager TORQUE resource manager