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 Group Meeting, Oct 2010 TechTalk: Version Control Intro to Parallel I/O, SciNet, Oct 6th, 2010: Morning & MPI-IO Slides. Intro to SciNet, Sept 2010 SciNet User Tutorial / slides. SciNet User Group Meeting, Sept 2010 TechTalk: Parallel File System and IO SciNet GPU Workshop July 2010 One-day Intro to Practical Parallel Programming, SciNet, 22 Sept 2010: Morning Slides, Intro and OpenMP , Afternoon Slides, MPI, Example source code Five-day 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 (MKL) Math Kernel Library's Vector Statistical Library for random number generators Math Kernel Library link line advisor Note: this gives the link options for the command line. When using this in Makefiles, replace $MKLPATH by ${MKLPATH}. 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)