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General High Performance Computing Information

These links could be out of date but may prove useful.

• Miscellaneous
• Software
• Overseas Institutions and Information
• Books and Reports on OpenMP and MPI
• Educational
• Newsletters
• Newsgroups
• Networking
• Visualization
• Mass Storage

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Miscellaneous

• The Top500 supercomputer sites.
• The SPEC performance benchmarks.
• A glossary of high performance computing terms from NPAC at Syracuse.
• ParaScope IEEE Computer Society's listing of parallel computer sites, journals and conferences related to high performance computing and much more.
• HPC Vendors from ParaScope.

Software

• NETLIB public domain collection of mathematical software, papers, and databases.
• Numerical Recipes On-line
• GAMS Guide to Available Mathematical Software A cross-index and virtual repository of mathematical and statistical software components of use in computational science and engineering.
• Numerical Algorithms Group(NAG) General Software Services
• Numerical Methods(links)
• A list of freely available software for linear algebra on the Web.
• MathTools.Net contains a list of useful commercial and free mathematical software resources.

Overseas Institutions and Information

• National University of Singapore - Supercomputer and Visualization Unit
• National University of Singapore - Dept of Computer Science
• Taiwan National Center for High Performance Computing
• Argonne National Laboratory Mathematics and Computer Science
• Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC)
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
• National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA)
• San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
    - US National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI)
• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)
• USA National Coordination Office for HPCC (NCO/HPCC)
• Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) sites:
    - Sandia (ASCI Red)
    - LLNL (ASCI Blue-Pacific)
    - LANL (ASCI Blue-Mountain)
    - ASCI white
  

Books and Reports on OpenMP and MPI

       Parallel Programming in OpenMP
       Chandra, Dagum, Kohr, Maydan, McDonald, Menon
       Academic Press 2001
       ISBN  1-55860-671-8 

       MPI - The Complete Reference
       Snir, Otto, Huss-Lederman, Walker, Dongarra
       The MIT Press 1998 
       ISBN 0-262-69215-5 

       Using MPI 
       Portable Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface
       Gropp, Lusk, Skjellum
       The MIT Press 1999
       ISBN 0-262-57134-X 

• MPI Report at Netlib       Index to MPI Report at Netlib
• OpenMP Resources
• MPI Resources     Dave Singleton's lists

Educational

• IEEE Computational Science and Engineering magazine.
• Computational Science Education Project from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, includes an interesting article on computer architecture basics, amongst other things. There is an Australian mirror of this site at the Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Facility.
• Manchester and North High Performance Computing Training and Education Centre list of courses and course materials
• Ian Foster's online book Designing and Building Parallel Programs

Newsletters

• APAC National Facility Newsletters.
• Kahaner Reports - reports on computing and technical issues in Asia.
• Asian Technology Information Program
• NPACI Online
• HPCwire

Newsgroups

Note: you will need to have a correctly setup local NNTPSERVER for these links to work properly.

• comp.sys.super
• comp.sys.parallel
• comp.sys.parallel.pvm
• comp.sys.parallel.mpi
• comp.unix.cray
• aus.computers.parallel
• comp.arch.storage

Networking

• AARNet Australian Academic and Research Network.
• GrangeNet Australian GRid And Next GEneration Network.

Visualization

• ANUSF Vizlab
• Sydney Vislab
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago.

Mass Storage

• ANUSF Mass Data Storage
• SAM-FS - HSM storage software used on the APAC National Facility
• NCAR Mass Storage Systems
• NCCS (NASA)
• NERSC Mass Storage Systems

Other Links in HPC

• Internet Parallel Computing Archive