Knowledge Base: Tutorials and Manuals

Tutorials

• 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
• 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