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Introduction to Parallel Computing (ME471)

This is the Wiki for ME 471/571 - 'Introduction to Parallel Computing'.

Please use this Wiki to keep up with what we have done in class, and to download any scripts or course code that is needed.

The course Website is ME471

Some useful and interesting links

Python

• Python Documentation

C programming language

• GNU C Library

• C Tutorial. Brian Kernighan's (of Kernighan and Ritchie fame) Online C tutorial.

MPI

• MPI Tutorial. A Tutorial provided by the University of Cottbus (Germany).

• LLNL MPI Reference. Tutorial provided by Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

• MPI Forum. This link provides latest information on the MPI Standard.

• MPI Documentation

• Using MPI and Using Advanced MPI (written by William Gropp, ond of the original authors of MPICH).

• OpenMPI. This is a well-laid out website which makes it easy to find all MPI commands, and descriptions of functions often goes beyond what is available on on MPICH sites.

Numerical Methods

• A good resource for numerical methods. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 talk about solving elliptic problems and discuss iterative methods. Finite Difference Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations: Steady-State and Time-Dependent Problems. Randall J. LeVeque (SIAM, 2007).

GPU Programming

• Download example programs from CUDA by Example.

• Nvidia Profiler User's Guide

Other interesting links

• High Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG) Benchmark - HPCG.
• Jobs for NumPy Developers Berkeley Institute for Data Science