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Fortran90 and HPF

High Performance Fortran, including a discussion of parallel implementations and features of HPF. From Introduction to Computational Science course at Syracuse.

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High Performance Fortran in Practice, by Charles Koelbel at Rice University is a tutorial on the High Performance Fortran language.

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HPF Tutorial by Tom Haupt at Syracuse, covers the major concepts of HPF. Examples are taken from benchmarking codes and illustrate the use of distributions and alignments.

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If you are unfamiliar with Fortran77, you can look things up in NPAC Glossary of Fortran programming.

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The Computational Science Education Project e-book at ORNL contains material on Fortran 90.

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For people who want understand the concepts and want a brief review, we have terse summary guides , at NPAC, Syracuse to all the Fortran Languages.

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Fortran 90 Course Notes from Manchester, UK. This course presents an overview of Fortran 90 and explains the features that are new to the language.

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Fortran90 from Liverpool, UK, containing different sets of course materials, some in html and some in postscript.

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Supercomputing Program for Undergraduate Research at the Cornell Theory Center has a list of tutorials and one of them is an Introduction to XL Fortran.

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Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 Programmer, by Einarsson and Shokin in Sweden is a tutorial to ease the transition from Fortran 77 to Fortran 90.

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A list of Fortran 90 and High Performance Fortran Courses, are available from Manchester and North Training and Education Center, UK.

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High Performance Fortran, at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPCC) Training and Education Center. Here is a set of student notes for a course on HPF by Ewing, Richardson, and Simpson at EPCC. Also, a set of HPF lecture slides by the same authors are available here.

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Virtual workshop materials as well as tutorials on High Performance Fortran, are available at the Cornell Theory Center.

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Fortran M, at Syracuse by Ian Foster at Argonne National Laboratory

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Materials for a workshop on HPC are available from NCSA. Among the materials there is a set of slides for an HPF minicourse.

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Message Passing Interface (MPI)

MPI is a new library specification for message-passing, proposed as a standard by a broadly based committee of vendors, implementors, and users. It can be used to write message-passing programs in any language, but typically is being made available in either C or Fortran77. The standard was approved in 1994 and many implementations are either available or are being planned on MIMD parallel machines and workstation farms of all types.

MPI, by Geoffrey Fox at Syracuse as part of Introduction to Computational Science course.

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MPI Tutorial and Lab Exercises from Cornell Theory Center.

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MPI: It's Easy to Get Started is a sample code containing the complete communications skeleton for a dynamically load balanced master/slave application. It is from Ohio Supercomputing Center.

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Introduction to MPI from the University of New Mexico, Maui Project.

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An Introduction to the MPI Standard by Steve Otto at Oregon Graduate Institute, in postscript.

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Chapter on MPI from Ian Foster's book at Argonne National Lab.

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MPI Collection of Sources at Oak Ridge National Lab includes a lot of educational material including tutorials and talks, papers, and example programs.

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MPI Collection of Sources at Argonne National Lab includes information for and about implementations of MPI on a variety of machines, and many other web pages about MPI.

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Example Programs from the book Using MPI by Gropp, Lusk, and Skjellum at Argonne National Lab A directory of example programs, including a more advanced N-body simulation program, and grid-based programs for solving Poisson's equations by finite differences.

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Brief Description of MPI Tutorial from David Walker at Oak Ridge National Lab.

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Summary of MPI Tutorial from David Walker at Oak Ridge National Lab.

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Homework Problems for the Tutorial from David Walker at Oak Ridge National Lab.

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Nbody Force Calculation Example Program includes general documentation and the MPI program by David Walker at Oak Ridge National Lab. The MPI directives of the progam are hyperlinked to their formats and definitions.

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Laplace SOR Solver Example Program uses Red/Black ordering for nearest neighbor calculations. Also, the MPI directives of the program are hyperlinked to their formats and definitions. The program was written by David Walker at Oak Ridge National Lab.

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Postscript version (April 1995, 72 pages) of the 90 minute tutorial slides by David Walker at Oak Ridge National Lab.

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HTML version of a set of slides for a half day tutorial on MPI by David Walker at Oak Ridge National Lab.

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Supercomputing Program for Undergraduate Research has a list lecture materials among them Introduction to MPI at the Cornell Theory Center.

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Educational Materials from the Retooling Project first workshop in 1995. It contains a collection of educational materials from the CRPC to help HPCC users write parallel implementations of their applications in MPI. It is located at NPAC, Syracuse.

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CTC Virtual Workshop Parallel Programming with Message Passing Libraries, Message Passing Interface Standard at Cornell Theory Center.

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MPI Resource List is a list of various MPI resources on the web from HPCC at University of Southampton, UK.

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MPI: the Complete Reference, a comprehensive reference on MPI by Snir, Otto, Hauss-Lederman, Walker and Dongarra at Netlib.

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MPI Tutorials and Talks, a variety of lectures and tutorials at Oak Ridge National Lab.

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MPI Course, at Manchester and North Training and Education Center, UK.

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MPI, at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center Training and Education Center.

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MPI, presented at Virtual Workshop at the Cornell Theory Center.

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Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)

PVM is a new library specification for message-passing, proposed as a standard by a broadly based committee of vendors, implementors, and users. It can be used to write message-passing programs in any language, but typically is being made available in either C or Fortran77. The standard has been implemented on MIMD parallel machines and workstation farms of all types.

PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine: A User's Guide and Tutorial for Networked Parallel Computing, by Dongarra et al. PVM at Netlib is a library of parallel message-passing routines similar to MPI.

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PVM Course, at Manchester and North Training and Education Center, UK.

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Tutorial: PVM, by the Joint Institue for Computational Science at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

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PVM, at the Cornell Theory Center.

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Linda

Linda is a machine-independent parallel programming language.

Linda Group, at Yale University explores a variety of research topics in parallel and distributed computing.

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Java

Java for Computational Science and Engineering is the main page for all of the latest research and development regarding the use of Java in the fields of Computational Science and Engineering. HPCC and Java is the homepage of the use of Java and high performance Java in the HPCC field. Both pages are maintained by Geoffrey Fox at NPAC. Also, here is the main page for

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Java Resources is a comprehensive list of Java resources including links to applets, documentation, packages and templates, search engines, specific platforms, tools, tutorials as well as Java research in distributed systems, networking, etc. This list is maintained by the Caltech Infospheres Project.

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MPI Java Wrapper is a set of Java Wrappers to MPI implemented using Java 1.0 native class interface. This set is available at NPAC, Syracuse.

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Using Java and JavaScript in the Virtual Programming Laboratory (VPL). VPL is a Web-based virtual programming environment built based on a client-server architecture. The system can be accessed on any platform (Unix, PC, or Mac) using a standard Java-enabled browser. It is available at NPAC, Syracuse.

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Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (NPAC) at Syracuse University. The content of these pages may be used freely for educational purposes. Some of the material is under individual copyright. Send comments to Saleh Elmohamed , saleh@npac.syr.edu. Last updated 6/4/97