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Message Passing Interface (MPI)

MPI is a library specification for message-passing, proposed as a standard by a broadly based committee of vendors, implementors, and users. In addition to the vendors own implementations of MPI, there are several freely available, portable implementations of MPI. MPICH is probably the most popular of these.

Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)

PVM is a software package that permits a heterogeneous collection of Unix computers hooked together by a network to be used as a single large parallel computer. PVM has become the de facto standard for distributed computing.

Generalized Communication (GC)

Both MPI and PVM make the code portable, but may give far from optimal communication performance on some systems. To overcome this problem, we wrote our own communication interface, Generalized Communication (GC). GC interfaces both MPI, PVM and most of the vendors own communication systems. This allows us to get good performance while maintaining portability.You can obtain GC for free, by sending an email.

SEL-HPC High Performance Computing Archive

Archive of links to HPC publications and to home pages of researchers in HPC, maintained by The London & South-East centre for High Performance Computing.

Designing and Building Parallel Programs (Online)

The book Designing and Building Parallel Programs by Ian Foster provides a comprehensive introduction to parallel algorithm design, performance analysis, and program construction. The online version includes additional information not found in the printed book. Highly recommended!

www.netlib.org:

MPI: The Complete Reference
PVM: A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Networked Parallel Computing

ftp.netlib.org: FTP , HTML

PVM3 Library: PVM3
MPI

If you can't find the HPC information you are looking for from one of these sites, it is probably not available on the net (but try the search engines before you give up):

Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC)

Contains informations about Parallel Programing , (EPCC-TEC) Centre of Training and Education, T3D/T3E service page, and EPIC Interactive Courseware combining both on-line exercises and hypertext student notes.

Supercomputing and Parallel Computing Resources

Contains information on conferences, reasearch groups, vendors and machines. Maintained by the Scandal Project.

Nan's Parallel Computing Page

Contains information on parallel computing education, online courses, online books, online bibliographies, standards, online software, people and research. Maintained by Nan C. Schaller.

NAS Parallel Tools Group Hotlist

High Performance Computing Archive

Also SEL-HPC Article Archive There are currently eleven separate archives available

HENSA Parallel Computing Archive

Contains software and information on conferences, reasearch groups, vendors and machines. Hosted by the HENSA Unix (Higher Education National Software Archive) Archive in the Computing Laboratory of the University of Kent at Canterbury, England.

• Xnetlib conferences database.
• Conferences and Journals database at the Scandal project.
• List of conferences from Hensa archives in the UK.
• Lis t of conferences from parallel SIG of Gesellschaft fur Informatik.