Classroom 152DSL	Bb	Prism	Phoenix	Mendel	Tempest	Selected books

High-Performance Computing Resources

Demos

Real-time ray tracing and Real-time ray tracing with 3 PS3s (3 Cell BE)

Parashute simulation with UPC (universal parallel C)

Airflow simulation using Cray XT3

Parallel N-body simulation

Serial optimization techniques

Sun HPC workshop "Serial Optimization Techniques Part 1" (26 mins) Memory access

Sun HPC workshop "Serial Optimization Techniques Part 2" (54 mins) Loop optimizations, blocking

Sun HPC workshop "Serial Optimization Techniques Part 3" (8 mins) The big picture

Sun HPC workshop "Serial Optimization Case Study" (26 mins) Recurrences, vectors, CFD
My own recurrence case study shows slightly different results (click here to view)

Sun HPC workshop "Sun Studio Compilers" (85 mins) Compiler options

Architecture

Sun HPC workshop "Architecture: Memory Hierarchy" (32 mins)

Sun HPC workshop "Architecture: Processors - UltraSparc" (38 mins)

Performance Analysis

Sun HPC workshop "Performance Analyzer" (21 mins)

Sun Studio Compiler Manuals

Sun Studio Performance Analyzer Manuals

Cluster system status

Cluster software

Prism cluster (7 nodes, 24 cores):

• 4 - quad CPU Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz, 1GB RAM, 40 GB SCSI HDD, Dual NIC (prism000 to prism003)
• 2 - (Advanced Clustering Technologies, Inc.) 2 dual core Intel Xeon 5160 CPUs @ 3 GHz, 4GB RAM, dual 40 GB HDD (Raid Mirror), Dual NIC
• 1 - (Dell) 2 dual core Intel Xeon 5160 CPUs @ 3 GHz, 4GB RAM, dual 60 GB HDD (Raid Mirror), Dual NIC

Phoenix cluster (16 nodes, 32 cores, see Phoenix system status):

• 1 head node configured with 2 Gigabytes of RAM, 2 dual-core Intel Xeon 3.20GHz processors, Single Gigabit Ethernet interface
• 15 compute nodes configured with1 Gigabyte of RAM, 2 AMD Athlon 1800+ processors, Single Gigabit Ethernet interface

Tempest cluster (10 nodes, 24 cores):

• 2 nodes configured with 4 Gigabytes of RAM, 4 Sun UltraSPARC-IIIi 1.2GHz RISC Processors
• 8 nodes configured with 2 Gigabytes of RAM, 2 Sun UltraSPARC-IIIi 1.2GHz RISC Processors