CSCI6356 (Parallel Computing) Courseware -- Xiannong Meng

This is CSCI6356, Parallel Computing, on-line courseware. The web pages are under experiment. If you have any comments or suggestions, please send mail to me. Thank you very much.

Course Syllabus and Schedule

Some MPI notes

Homeworks and programming project: |Project One |Project Two |Term Paper |Project Three

Texts and major references

Parallel Programming -- Techniques and Applications Using Networked Workstations and Parallel Computers by Barry Wilkinson and Michael Allen, Prentice Hall, 1999, required.

Author's book web site

Parallel Programming with MPI by Peter Pacheco, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1997, required.

Author's book web site

Parallel Programming with MPI by

Introduction to Parallel Computing -- Design and Analysis of Algorithms by Vipin Kumar, Ananth Grama, Anshul Gupta, and George Karypis, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing, 1994.

High Performance Cluster computing: Architectures and Systems vol. 1 and vol. 2, Rajkumar Buyya (ed.), Prentice Hall 1999

Design and Building Parallel Programs by Ian Foster, Addison Wesley Publishing, 1995

Parallel Computation -- Models and Methods by Selim G. Akl, Prentice Hall, 1997

An Introduction to Parallel Programming by K. Mani Chandy and Stephen Taylor, Jones and Bartlett Publisher, 1992

In Search of Clusters -- the ongoing battle in lowly parallel computing (2ed) by Gregory F. Pfister, Prentice Hall, 1998

How to use MPI

Instructions on how to compile and run MPI programs for MPICH on UNIX

Instructions on how to install and use WinMPICH, an implementation of MPI for WindowsNT. The text posted here came with the WinMPICH distribution and was written by Shane Hebert, Boris Protopopov and Anthony Skjellum. It is re-posted with the permission from the author.

Examples of MPI programs

hello.c

For the heat equation problem, you should get source files graphics.h graphics.c heat.c heat.h heateqn.c from this directory. You should also get simple.bnd for input file (a boundary file). For UNIX users, get the makefile from the same directory.

A few other MPI examples

Some other examples of programming including threads, shared memory ...

Here are some links to the parallel computing community. They are in no particular order.

Parallel computing course materials on the Internet

CS267 Spring 1997 --- a parallel computing course at UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley CS267 Home Page: Spring 1996 --- a different version of parallel computing course at UC Berkeley

Physics and NACSE at OSU --- a physics course at Oregon State University

Nan's Parallel Computing Page --- Nan's page contains extremely rich set of information about parallel computing!

IEEE Computer Society's parallel links

IEEE's Task Force on Cluster Computing

Cluster computing resources maintained by Dr. Rajkumar Buyya

Computational Aspects of N-Body Problem