Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 06:55:41 -0800 (PST)
From: kris stewart <stewart@rohan.sdsu.edu>
To: cs575@rohan.sdsu.edu
Subject: Last 4 weeks of semeseter - MPI on Rohan examine my examples

Hello CS 575 Students,

SC2002 Supercomputing was a powerful and exciting conference in Baltimore 
last week.  Japan's Earth Simulator (NEC) machine received a lot of 
attention, until our U.S. Department of Energy announced the contract
with IBM to build ASCI Purple and, in 2005, the ASCI Blue Gene/Light
running Linux.

http://asia.cnn.com/2002/TECH/biztech/11/19/ibm.supercomputerr.ap/

As our class calendar indicates, we begin our serious study of the 
path to Parallel Programming using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) 
and I have provided links to resources on Rohan that will allow you 
to experiment with this environment below we transition to using 
IBM's Blue Horizon at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

You accounts will be distributed in class today, once you read and sign 
the "User Responsibility Form".

We have 4 weeks left in the semester now and we have just reached the 
most "powerful" part of this introduction to High Performance Computing.

Please take a look at the MPI Rohan examples before class today so that 
when we discuss them it will not be "too new".  The examples are linked 
to the Class Calendar

http://www.stewart.cs.sdsu.edu/cs575/calendar.html

See you soon

Kris Stewart