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.)

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.

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 OpenMPI implementation.
• My notes Using MPI on the Linux Lab Machines.

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.