Courses and Lectures

• LRZ Courses
• Parallel Programming and Optimization on High Performance Computers
• Courses and events organized by the Gauss Centres for Supercomputing in Germany
• Parallel Programming Workshop - ONLINE (HLRS courses online)
• Designing and Building Parallel Programs.Online book by Ian Foster.
• WebCT-HPC :  Web-based training site (requires registration) for High Performance Computing sponsored by the  National Center for Supercomputing Applications  (NCSA)

Application optimization

• Designing and Building Parallel Programs (Ian Foster, ANL)
• Tuning MPI Applications for Peak Performance (ANL)
• Optimization and Tuning of Uniprocessors, SMPs and MPPs, including OpenMP and MPI (Philip Mucci and Kevin London) 
• Basic Optimisation Strategies for CFD-Codes (RRZE Erlangen)
• Writing Efficient Programs with C++, Jörg Striegnitz, (FZ Jülich), Feb. 2001
• Efficient Programming in Fortran, C, and C++
  U. Rüde (FAU Erlangen), G. Hager (RRZE), July 2003
  • Part I:  Computer Architecture and Optimization Techniques  (PDF)
  • Part II:  Case Studies  (PDF)

Intel

• Coding Considerations: Practical Methods to Maximum Efficiency (PDF)
• Optimizing Applications with the Intel C++ and Fortran Compilers for Windows and Linux (There is also an obsolete version targeted at the 7.x compilers)
• Intel VTune: Please consult the VTune page at LRZ for references to VTune documentation

Altix optimization documents

• SGI Linux Application Tuning Guide (PDF, 500 kB)
• SGI Altix Performance Tuning
• SGI Altix Applications Development and Optimizations Guide (PDF, 8 MB)

Intel Compilers

• Refer to the LRZ document on the Intel Compilers for LRZ specifics on their usage, as well as links to the Intel Web Site.

• Fortran Release Notes
• Fortran Documentation (requires Java Plugin)

• C/C++ Release Notes (HTML)
• C/C++ Documentation (requires Java Plugin)

• Fortran Release Notes (PDF)
• Fortran Documentation (requires Java Plugin)

• C/C++ Release Notes (PDF)
• C/C++ Documentation (requires Java Plugin)

• Fortran Release Notes (PDF)
• Fortran Documentation (requires Java Plugin)

• C/C++ Release Notes (PDF)
• C/C++ Documentation (requires Java Plugin)

Portland Group (PGI)

• PGI Compiler Documentation (external Link at Portland Groups web site)

Linux

• The Linux Programmer's Guide (500 kByte PDF)
• GNU Manuals Online (especially interesting for gcc and glibc)

Intel Performance Libraries

MKL General Information

• Refer to the LRZ document on the Intel Libraries for LRZ specifics on their usage, as well as links to the Intel Web Site.
• Overview of the Intel Math Kernel Library for Itanium (talk given at LRZ in October 2004)

MKL Versions in use on LRZ systems

Math Kernel Library Release 9.1

• Documentation Index (links to all documents)
• Reference Manual (13 MByte PDF)

Math Kernel Library Release 10.0

• Documentation Index (links to all documents
• Reference Manual (13 MByte PDF)

Math Kernel Library Release 10.2

• Documentation Index (links to all documents
• Reference Manual (15 MByte PDF)

IPP Versions in use on LRZ systems

• IA32 Documentation Index for the 5.1 release.
• EM64T Documentation Index for the 5.1 release.

• Documentation Index for the 6.1 release.

Math Kernel Library, TBB and IPP manuals (external)

• See the MKL documentation page, the TBB documentation page, as well as the IPP documentation page on Intel's web site.

SGI

• SGI Scientific Computing Software Library (SCSL) User's Guide (HTML) (PDF)

MPI and OpenMP

• General Information about MPI
• General Information about OpenMP
• Intel Cluster OpenMP User's Manual

Other Paradigms

• POSIX Thread( pthreads)
• SHMEM (see SGI)

Intel MPI

• Getting Started Guide (Version 3.0, 90 kByte PDF)
• Reference Manual (Version 3.0, 270 kByte PDF)
• Release Notes (Version 3.0, 30 kByte Text)

SGI MPT

• Message Passing Toolkit: MPI Programmer's Manual (HTML) (PDF)
• Message Passing Toolkit (MPT) User's Guide (HTML) (PDF)
• man pages: mpi, mpirun, shmem

• Totalview:  A Universal Debugger, R. Bader (LRZ), February 2004
• VAMPIR:  Diagnosing Parallel Programs, (partially in German) R. Bader (LRZ), February 2004

Intel

• Intel Software Developers Tools: An Overview of Compilers, Analyzers, Cluster Tools and Libraries
• Intel VTune: Please consult the VTune page at LRZ for references to VTune documentation

Version 10.1

• Documentation Index

Portland Group (PGI)

• PGI Debugger and Tools

SGI Systems
(Off-site links on SGI's Web Servers)

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