Request for pointers to books or articles on how to efficiently program Beowulf clusters

[Greg Lindahl]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:46:27PM -0700, Ed Porter wrote:

> What are some good books and good articles on how to write parallel
> programs to run on Beowulf clusters (particularly relatively large
> clusters) for a beginner at parallel programming.  My particular
> interest relates to computations on large semantic networks.

>From your questions, the first thing you'll want to check out is the
difference between "shared memory" programming and "message passing"
programming. Most clusters don't offer shared memory services. At most
they might provide one-sided messaging like the Cray SHMEM library,
which is message passing that can be written relatively compactly
compared to MPI, the usual library people use for message passing.

-- greg

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