Lesson 12 Date: 4/21/2010

Computational clusters

Linux for Engineering and IT applications

References Open MPI web site LLNL MPI Tutorial "Message Passing with MPI and PVM" by Forrest Hoffman, Linux Magazine "Parallel Processing on Linux with PVM and MPI" by Rahul U. Joshi, Linux Gazette Sun Grid Engine sources and documentation

Parallel Computing Paradigms Clustering Technologies Message Passing Interface (MPI) General MPI Program Structure Point to Point Communication MPI Standard Data Types MPI Send/Receive example MPI Collective Communications Collective Communication Example Master-Slave Task Farming Computing Partial Sums OpenMPI installation MPI code compilation and run in OpenMPI Sun Grid Engine SGE installation Jobs in SGE SGE commands References Take me to the Course Website