Knowledge Base: Tutorials and Manuals

Tutorials and workshops For upcoming classes, see our Courses website. Course materials will be posted here when the classes are over. SciNet User Tutorial TechTalk: Parallel File System and IO, SciNet User Group Meeting, Sept 2010 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 Web courses (Jul/Aug 2010): Petascale programming environments and tools Big data for science Proven algorithmic techniques for many-core processors 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 Intel (GPC): C & C++ compiler Fortran compiler Intel Compiler Floating Point Consistency Math Kernel Library Math Kernel Library link line advisor Intel MPI library IBM (TCS): 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) Performance tuning Parallel environment Cluster information center (also explains error codes!) Scheduler Moab workload manager(Adaptive Computing/Cluster Resources) Moab commands (Adaptive Computing/Cluster Resources) Torque resource manager (Adaptive Computing/Cluster Resources) Torque PBS commands (Adaptive Computing/Cluster Resources) LoadLeveler: using & administering (IBM)