Parallel Computing and Architectures

Parallel Architectures Including analogies with Society, SIMD vs. MIMD etc.,Interconnection Networks, Petaflop Dreams. From the Computational Science course at Syracuse.

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Parallel Programming in Data Parallel and Message Passing styles illustrated for Laplace's Equation. Consideration of Performance Issues. From the Computational Science course at Syracuse.

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Computer Architecture, a chapter from the CSEP book at Oak Ridge National Lab, includes both sequential and parallel architectures.

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Parallel Computer Architecture (alpha draft) by Culler, Gupta and Singh at UC Berkeley is an online draft of an upcoming textbook covering most of the latest advances in hardware as well as parallel computing software.

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Parallel Computing is a one-day course given by Minty, Davey, Simpson and Henty at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center. It covers hardware issues, software issues as well as application models.

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CTC Virtual Workshop Parallel Programming with MPI and HPF, at the Cornell Theory Center is a course covering MPI, HPF and Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Memory Programming.

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ECE 392/CS 320/CSE 302 Introduction to Parallel Programming for Scientists and Engineers, is an undergraduate course offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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ECE 411/CSE 428 High-Performance Computer Architectures: Hardware and Software, is a graduate course offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Parallel Scientific Computing is a course given by Alan Edelman at MIT designed for students who want to study the latest numerical algorithms on the most recent machines.

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Applications of Parallel Computers is a graduate course by David Culler at Berkeley and Horst Simon of NERSC. It is intended to provide students in Computer Science and in a range of other fields with a broad understanding of the application of parallel computers.

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CSCI 4676 and CSCI 4686: High-Performance Scientific Computing, (course description), is an undergraduate course offered by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Introduction to Parallel Computing, at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center Training and Education Center.

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Parallel Programming Paradigms, by Geoffrey Fox at Syracuse, discusses categories of applications and which parallel programming styles, languages and tools work best.

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Theory of Parallel Systems is a graduate level course given by Charles Leiserson at MIT. It covers issues in parallel systems with a dual emphasis on theory and practice.

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Parallel Architecture is a graduate level course given in 1995 by David Culler at UC Berkeley.

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Parallel Algorithms is a graduate course at San Diego State. The focus is on various parallel and numerical algorithms.

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Tutorials on Particular Machines

Supercomputing Program for Undergraduate Research Introduction to the IBM SP2 at the Cornell Theory Center.

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Supercomputing Program for Undergraduate Research offers workshops on Parallel Programming on the IBM SP2 at the Cornell Theory Center.

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A First Course in Programming the Intel Paragon, a self-study introduction at Indiana University complementing the manufacturers programming and reference manuals for the Intel Paragon supercomputer.

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Maui High Performance Computing Center SP Parallel Programming Workshop, ( Maui, Hawaii) presents tutorials on various parallel programming tools and languages on the IBM SP2.

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Tutorials: IBM SP2, PVM, CM-5, MasPar MP-2, and Intel iPSC/860, by the Joint Institue for Computational Science at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

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IBM SP2 Workshop, at the Cornell Theory Center.

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Supercomputing Techniques: Cray J90/C90 workshop, at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

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Supercomputing Techniques: Parallel Processing on Cray MPP Systems, is a workshop given by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

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SGI related Training Courses, etc. is a page maintained by NCSA. It contains a list of technical materials, tutorial slides and links to other institutions.

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Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (NPAC) at Syracuse University. The content of these pages may be used freely for educational purposes. Some of the material is under individual copyright. Send comments to Saleh Elmohamed, saleh@npac.syr.edu or Nancy McCracken, njm@npac.syr.edu. Last updated 5/20/97.