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 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, (FJ Jülich), Feb. 2001
• Efficient Programming in Fortran, C, and C++
  U. Rde (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

Optimization for Itanium2 Processors

• Efficiency and Coding Practices: Maximum Efficiency for Itanium Architecture
• Hints for Optimal Performance on the Itanium Processor Family
• Black Belt Itanium® Processor Performance
• Itanium Processor Software Specifications
• Intel Itanium Processor Reference Manual For Software Development and Optimization
• Introduction to Microarchitectural Software Optimization for Itanium Processors.
• Intel Itanium Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Vol. 1: Application Architecture
• Intel Itanium Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Vol. 2: System Architecture
• Intel Itanium Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Vol. 3: Instruction Set Reference
• How to use the Intel Itanium Performance counters to identify bottlenecks in programs: Sverre Jarp: A Methodology for using the Itanium 2 Performance Counters for Bottleneck Analysis

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.
• Overview of Intel Compilers for the Itanium Architecture (talk given at LRZ in October 2004)

• Fortran Release Notes
• Fortran User's Guide Vol. 1 ((requires Java Plugin), alternatively available as PDF document
• Fortran User's Guide Vol. 2 (requires Java Plugin), alternatively available as PDF document
• Compiler Option Guide for Linux Systems (requires Java Plugin), alternatively available as PDF document
• C++ and Fortran Performance Guide (PDF, 0.3 MByte)
• Fortran Language Reference (PDF document, 8.1 MByte)
• Fortran Library Reference (PDF document, 5.4 MByte)
• Training Material for the Compiler Suite (requires Java Plugin)

• C/C++ Release Notes (HTML)
• C/C++ Compiler User's Guide (requires Java Plugin), alternatively available as PDF document
• Training Material for the Compiler Suite (requires Java Plugin)

• Fortran Release Notes
• Fortran Documentation (requires Java Plugin)
• Fortran Language Reference (PDF document, 8.2 MByte)
• Fortran Library Reference (PDF document, 5.4 MByte)

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

• 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)
• PDF versions of above documents from Intel's web site

• C/C++ Release Notes (PDF)
• C/C++ Documentation (requires Java Plugin)
• PDF versions of above documents from Intel's web site

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 8.0

• Documentation Index (links to all documents
• Quick Reference
• Reference Manual (17 MByte PDF)

Math Kernel Library Release 8.1

• Documentation Index (links to all documents
• Quick Reference
• Reference Manual (17 MByte PDF)

Math Kernel Library Release 9.0

• Documentation Index (links to all documents
• Quick Reference
• Reference Manual (17 MByte PDF)

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)

IPP Versions in use on LRZ systems

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

Math Kernel Library and IPP manuals (external)

• See the MKL manual page as well as the IPP support 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 8.1

• Intel Debugger Manual (750 KByte HTML)
• Intel Debugger Release Notes (21 KByte HTML)

Version 9.1

• Documentation Index

Version 10.1

• Documentation Index

Portland Group (PGI)

• PGI Debugger and Tools

Intel Itanium2 Architecture

• Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 Processor Reference Manual for Software Development and Optimization (PDF, 2.5 MB
• Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor Hardware Developer’s Manual (PDF, 700 KB)
• Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor Microarchitectural Updates for the Montecito Processor
• Intel Itanium Architecture: Some microarchitectural features of the IPF
• Intel® Itanium® Architecture Software Developer's Manual
• • Volume 1: Application Architecture
  • Volume 2: System Architecture, Revision 2.2  
  • Volume 3: Instruction Set Reference, Revision 2.2 

SGI Systems (altix, hlrb2)
(Off-site links on SGI's Web Servers)

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