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> I've been asked for a course on parallel
> programming by our mech eng department.
"Parallel Programming" is a much larger topic than MPI.
EPCC developed a course with JISC funding so you might
want to see if that is available to save you some effort.
Their document archive has pointers to the course notes.
> > i was thinking of mpi and would look at
> >
> > solaris
> > linux
> > windows 2000/xp
> >
> > what implmentations are people on the list using at the moment?
This implies a practical programming content (I'm all for that).
In which case you might also want a parallel debugger in addition
to just an MPI runtime environment.
> Sun SMPs come with their own HPC libraries (don't remember how it's called),
> including MPI. It's not cheap, so people are sing MPICH as well.
Please see
http://www.sun.com/servers/hpc/software/tryandbuy.html
for free downloads and source versions of HPC ClusterTools
for SMPs and clusters.
Harvey Richardson
Global Customer Benchmarking
Sun Microsystems
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