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
• Topic 02 - Node Hardware 4up
• Topic 02b - Node Performamce 4up
  
  • HINT modified to detect SIGTERM on low memory.
  • HINT tar file of this version
  • original HINT
  • Old HINT directory
• Topic 03 - Linux for Clusters 4up
• Topic 04 - System Area Networks (SANs) 4up
  • Cluster Interconnects References
• Topic 05 - Configuring and Tuning Cluster Networks 4up
• Topic 05p - Performance 4up color
  • Gigabit over Copper - Anthony Betz, Paul Gray, U. of Northern Iowa.
  • Network Performance
    • Netperf
      • Netperf
      • Netperf directory
    • Netpipe
      • Netpipe Homepage
      • Netpipe document (postscript)
      • Netpipe for VIA - Alpha version v0.01 (Hong Ong)
    • TTCP
      • TTCP
• Topic 05s - Security 4up
• Topic 05t - Troubleshooting 4up
• Topic 06 - Cluster Setup Options 4up
• Topic 07 - Parallel Programming 4up
  Socket Programming
• Topic 08 - Introduction to MPI 4up
• Topic 08 Revised Edition - Introduction to MPI 4up
  MPI in C examples from Pachero
  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 4up
  MPI in C examples from Pachero
• Topic 10 - MPI Communicators and Topology 4up
  MPI in C examples from Pachero
• Topic 11 - MPI 2 4up
• Topic 12 - MPI Related Software 4up
• Using the Cluster Ohio Cluster at Kent and the IA32 Cluster at OSC