CSCI 3366 (Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Processing):
Useful Links and Other Resources

(Suggestions for additions to this page are welcome; send to bmassing@cs.trinity.edu.)

MPI-related links

• Argonne National Lab's MPI Web site, with links to the MPI standard, a FAQ, tutorials, information about implementations, etc., etc.
• The MPI Forum's Web site, with links to the full MPI standard.
• Home page for the LAM implementation.
• My notes Using MPI on the Linux Lab Machines.

OpenMP-related links

• The OpenMP home page, with links to the OpenMP standard and notes on implementations, examples, etc.
• My notes Using OpenMP on the Linux Lab Machines. (These notes are for machines running Fedora Core 5. See last year's version of my notes for instructions applicable to the remaining Fedora Core 4 machines -- Dione00 (4 processors), Dione01 and Dione02 (2 each).)

Java-related links

• Sun's online API for Java 1.5 (a.k.a 5.0).
• Sun's Java tutorial.

Links about design patterns

• Elementary Patterns home page.
• Brief descriptions of GoF patterns.

Miscellaneous non-local links

• Online version of Ian Foster's book Designing and Building Parallel Programs (a nice book on parallel program design).
• The History of the Development of Parallel Computing (a nice outline of the history of the field, from 1955 to 1993).
• Top 500 Supercomputer Sites (mostly massively parallel systems).
• A frequently cited and somewhat tongue-in-cheek paper on misreporting of performance results
  • Text of original paper.
  • Slides from a more recent talk loosely based on the paper.
  • About the author.