Cluster Computing Lecture Notes

These notes are given as guides to the lecture contents only. Reading these notes should not be considered as a substitute for attending the lectures or reading the textbook. The material presented in the lecture may vary from the material here. Notes may be updated before or after each lecture.
The online version is in Adobe Acrobat and is 2up that is 2 slides per page. If you would prefer 4up or 1up please let me know.

• Topic 01 - Introduction
  • 2up color
• Topic 02 - Node Hardware
  • 2up color
• Topic 03 - Node Performamce
  • 2up color
  
  
  • HINT modified to detect SIGTERM on low memory.
  • HINT tar file of this version
  • original HINT
  • Old HINT directory
  • NAS Parallel Benchmarks
  • Hint archive at BYU
• Topic 04 - System Area Networks (SANs)
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  • Cluster Interconnects References
• Topic 5 - Network Performance
  • Topic 5 (two up color) - Network Performance
  • Gigabit over Copper - Anthony Betz, Paul Gray, U. of Northern Iowa.
  • Network Performance
    • Netperf
      • Netperf Homepage
      • Netperf
      • Netperf directory
    • Netpipe
      • Netpipe Homepage
      • Netpipe document (postscript)
      • Netpipe for VIA - Alpha version v0.01 (Hong Ong)
    • TTCP
      • TTCP
    • Iperf - Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss.
      Iperf homepage
    • Other utilities/versions
      • ttcp/nttcp/nuttcp/iperf versions

Last Years Notes - may be modified this semester -in last semester order

• Topic 01 - Introduction
• Topic 02 - Node Hardware
• Topic 04 - System Area Networks (SANs)
  • Cluster Interconnects References
• Topic 07 - Parallel Programming
  Socket Programming
• Topic 08 - Introduction to MPI
  • One step tutorial:Getting started with LAM
  • Getting started with LAM/MPI - Slightly Purdue specific
  • MPI in C examples from Pachero
  • Using MPI in C examples - gunzipped tar file
  • The trapezoidal and dot product / matrix product are in Chapter 4 and 5 respectively.
  • Advanced Communication in C examples from Pachero
• Topic 09 - MPI Derived Data Types
  MPI in C examples from Pachero
• Topic 10 - MPI Communicators and Topology
  MPI in C examples from Pachero
• Topic 11 - MPI v operations
• Topic 12 - MPI versions
• Topic 13 - MPI 2 Dynamic process creation
  • Using MPI-2 in C examples - gunzipped tar file
• Topic 14 - MPI 2 One sided communication
• Topic 15 - MPI 2 Parallel I/O
• Topic 16 - Linux for Clusters
• Topic 17 - Node Performamce color
  
  • HINT modified to detect SIGTERM on low memory.
  • HINT tar file of this version
  • original HINT
  • Old HINT directory
  • Hint archive at BYU
• Topic 18 - Network Performance color
  • Gigabit over Copper - Anthony Betz, Paul Gray, U. of Northern Iowa.
  • Network Performance
    • Netperf
      • Netperf Homepage
      • Netperf
      • Netperf directory
    • Netpipe
      • Netpipe Homepage
      • Netpipe document (postscript)
      • Netpipe for VIA - Alpha version v0.01 (Hong Ong)
    • TTCP
      • TTCP
    • Iperf - Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss.
      Iperf homepage
    • Other utilities/versions
      • ttcp/nttcp/nuttcp/iperf versions
• Topic 19 - Configuring and Tuning Cluster Networks

Notes from 2004

• Topic 20 - Security 4up
• Topic 21 - Troubleshooting 4up
• Topic 22 - MPI Related Software 4up
• Topic 23 - Cluster Setup Options 4up
• Using the Cluster Ohio Cluster at Kent and the IA32 Cluster at OSC