CPS-615 -- Introduction

High Performance Computing and Computational Science

Synopsis

This page summarizes resources collected for an introduction to High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) as applied to large scale Scientific and Engineering Applications. This includes software, algorithms and exemplar applications for a wide range of fields. The techniques described here should allow users to program parallel machines in a portable scaling (in number of nodes) fashion.

These resources include two general books (one, Parallel Computing Works which focuses on applications and another Designing and Building Parallel Programs on technologies). There are set of general articles and the complete set of lectures used at Syracuse University in 1996-97. We also have the key resource material for the basic programming technologies in HPF and MPI.

References

Lecture slides covering HPCC "classic" topics of
Lecture slides covering HPCC "future" topics of
- Problem Solving Environments.
- 2007: PetaFlops.
- Web Technologies in HPCC.
Lecture slides covering Programming Models and Performance using as an example Laplace solver.
On the topic of applications, here is an NPAC report entitled An Application Perspective on High-Performance Computing and Communications.
Another NPAC report gives an introduction and discussion on the topic of High Performance Distributed Computing
On the subject of cluster computing and running jobs on a network of computers, here is an NPAC report entitled Cluster Computing Review.
NPAC Technical Report (1995): Basic Issues and Current Status of Parallel Computing.
NPAC Technical Report (1992): Prospects for Parallel Computing.
An Application Discussion focussing on industry with three application areas : Chemistry, CFD, and Monte Carlo Simulations covered as case studies.
A list of Grand Challenge Applications in high performance computing and communication (HPPC). (U.Tenn)
An Overview of Recent Supercomputers (1996) by van der Steen and Dongarra. (Rice)