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Utilizing Workstation Clusters

How I learned to love PVM

June 1995

Authors

• QUB PCC
  • Ruth Dilly

  • Linda Geoghan

  • Alan Rea

• MAN TEC
  • Chris Lilley

  • Andy Grant

  • Martin Preston

  • Sue Ramsden

Course Timetable

Day 1

• Establishing a Workstation Cluster - System Components
  • Basic hardware components

  • Basic software components

  • Obtaining the software components

  • Installing and testing the software components

Day 2

• Using a workstation cluster
  • Program development

  • Program execution and optimization

Introduction

Establing a Workstation Cluster

- Workstation specification

- Workstation Peripherals

- Workstation Configurations

Network Specification

- Network Specification

- Network Configuration

- Cabling

- Network Components

Basic Software Components

Languages

- Languages

- C

- C++

- GCC and G++

- FORTRAN - HISTORY

- FORTRAN 77

- FORTRAN 90

- HPF

Source Converters

- HPF

- Fortran 77 to Fortran 90 source converter

- ADAPTOR

Libraries

- Libraries

- MOTIF and X11

- TCL and TK

- PVM & XPVM

- MPI

- CHIMP

- Linda

- P4

- PICL

Debuggers

- Debuggers

- Xdbx

- Xmdb

- ParaGraph

- HeNCE

Cluster Queuing Systems

- Cluster Queuing Systems

- DQS

- NQE

- CODINE

- LSF: Load Sharing Facility

- Cluster Queuing Systems

Unix Background

- Unix Background

- NFS

- NFS Server

- NFS Client

- NFS Server/Client Interaction

- NIS

- Currently Installed Software

Obtaining the Software Components

- Topics

The Internet

- The Internet

- Internet - History

- Names & Numbers

Internet Connection and Access

- Getting connected

- Connection Medium

- Locating &Retrieving

- Using Applications on the Internet

- Archie

- Gopher

- WAIS

- Telnet

World Wide Web

- WWW

- History of the WWW

- How the Web works?

- Client server TCP/IP dialogue

- Navigation

- WWW Concepts

- Hypertext

- HTML

- Links

- URL

- HTTP

- Mosaic

- Features of Mosaic

- Mosaic for Windows

- Mosaic for Unix

- Installation of Mosaic

- Mosaic Interface

- Moving between Documents

- What you see when loading

- Customizing Mosaic

- Local file

- Quick Access

- Annotations

- Netscape

- Features

- Mozilla

- Cello

- Lynx

Search Engines

- Searching

- Tools

References

- BOOKS

- Sites To Check-out

- Exercises

Installing the Software Components

- Installing the Software Components

Generic Installation Considerations

- Generic Installation Considerations

- System File Structure

- / File Structure

- Component Placement

Installation Utilities

- Installation Utilities

- tar

- uncompress

- uuencode/uudecode

- gzip/gunzip

- make utility

- imake

- xmkmf

- aimk