CS 6230
High-performance Parallel Computing:
Tools and Applications

• Course Information
• Projects
• Presentations
• Documentation
• Computer Resourses On Campus
• Related Links

Course Information:

• Instructor: Matthew Wolf, Room 258 CoC, mwolf@cc.gatech.edu, 5-1278, Office Hours by appointment
• Teaching Assistant: Akbar Ladak, akbar@cc.gatech.edu.
  Office Hours: 2-3 Friday, CoC Common Area
• Time: MWF 3:00-4:00 PM
• Location: CCB 43
• Text: No single text -- based on project, choose one of the below. Papers will also be provided by the instructor.
• Recommended Texts:
  • General HPC books
    • "High Performance Computing" by Kevin Dowd and Charles Severance (2nd edition), O'Reilly Books
    • "Software Optimization for High Performance Computing" by Kevin R. Wadleigh and Isom L. Crawford, Hewlett-Packard Professional Books
  • Cluster Computing (Architecture, Middleware, and Applications)
    • "High Performance Cluster Computing" edited by Rajkumar Buyya, Prentice-Hall PTR, 1999. Vol. 1 & 2.
  • HPC Applications
    • "Industrial Strength Parallel Computing" edited by Alice E. Koniges, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.
  • Shared Memory Programming
    • "Parallel Programming in OpenMP" by Rohit Chandra et al, Morgan Kaufman, 2001.
    • "Pthreads Programming" by Bradford Nichols, Dick Buttlar, & Jacqueline Proulx Farrel, O'Reilly Books, 1998.
  • Distributed Memory Programming
    • "Parallel Programming With MPI" by Peter Pacheco, Morgan Kaufman, 1996.
    • "Using MPI (2nd Edition)" by William Gropp, Ewing Lusk, Anthony Skjellum, MIT Press, 1999.
• Course Outline & Description in html  or in Word
• Course Syllabus in html  or in Word

Projects

• Case Study -- Due: February 18, midnight.
  • Sample files for the case study New large clusters available
  • Instructions for submission:
    Compress your files using tar/zip and send them to gt6373b@prism.gatech.edu.
    The name of the compressed file should be your gtxxxxx number.
    Do NOT include binaries.
    Include instructions to compile your files in a "README" file.
    Your Report should be included in a seperate "Report" file.
    

• Project Presentations

• Project Guidelines

• Suggested Project List -- Now Available

Presentations

Presentations are cross-listed in the Project Descriptions section.

Documentation

• Getting Started on the IHPCL Clusters
• Using MPI (mpich & lam) on the IHPCL Clusters
• Read about OpenMP
  • OpenMP Tutorial from SC 99 -- This is long, but it's a very good introduction to OpenMP including several small code examples.
• Local user's copy of Portland Compiler documentation.
  • The User's Guide has the documentation on most of the environment, including pgdbg in chapter 15 & pgprof in chapter 14.
  • NOTE: you must be on an internal GT machine to access this. For outside access, please refer to the Portland Group Documentation webpage

Computer Resources on Campus

• Interactive High Performance Computing Lab
• CoC Cluster Information
• ECE/CoC Critical Systems Lab
• CoC Systems Machines
• CoC SGI Origin 2000
• CoC Sun Myrinet Clusters
• GT OIT Resources
• GT OIT Virtual Parallel Supercomputer

Related Links

• Spring 2000 CS6230 Page
• Winter 99 CS6432 Page
• Winter 98 CS6432 Page
• Parallel Computing and Interconnect Links

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