Today’s readings (Lecture 13, 11/5/2015)

• P. Pacheco, An Introduction to Parallel Programming, Chapter 3, pp. 83-101.

• MPI: The Complete Reference, by Marc Snir et al. This is a detailed reference. For this lecture, read the section entitled Introduction and Overview.

To dig deeper

• mpitutorial.com. A good source of tutorials. The relvant sections for today’s lectures are as follows.
  • MPI Hello World
  • Section entitled “Blocking point-to-point communication”
    • MPI Send and Receive
• RS/6000 SP: Practical MPI Programming, IBM Red Book.
  The relevant parts for this lecture are Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 §2.1-2.4. Though somewhat dated, this is an excellent source of information about MPI. Note that the code examples are written in Fortran.

Some background reading for Stencil methods in CUDA

• Finite Difference Methods in CUDA C/C++. (Part 2 follows part 1 and is linked at the bottom of the document.) Describes a 3D stencil method and discusses the use of constant memory.