References: Commodity Parallel Processing

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• The Parallel Processing HOWTO for the Linux Documentation Project provides a good overview.
• The Aggregate is a research group based at UK and has references on virtually every technology that will be used in this course.
• The SWAR Homepage at Purdue University has the latest released version of the Scc compiler, as well as a WWW CGI version of the compiler that you can use without having to download the compiler. If you use the CGI version, you'll also need some header files from the compiler, which I also have posted here as Scc_3dnow.h, Scc_ia32.h, Scc_mmx.h, Scc_athlon.h, and swartypes.h.
• There is lots of information about MPI available online; here is a list of materials that can help you learn to use MPI. Our favorite MPI implementation is LAM/MPI, which we prefer over MPICH primarily because it has a history of yielding better performance on the same hardware.
• The PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) home page has a variety of materials about PVM. Here is the PVM 3.3 Reference Card.