Sun MPI 4.0 Programming and Reference Guide

Related Publications

This book focuses on Sun MPI and assumes familiarity with the MPI standard. The following materials provide useful background about using Sun MPI and about the MPI standard.

Books

Among the documents included with Sun HPC ClusterTools software, you may want to pay particular attention to these:

Application	Title	Part Number
Sun HPC ClusterTools software	Sun HPC ClusterTools 3.0 Product Notes	805-6262-10
Using ClusterTools software with LSF Suite	Sun MPI 4.0 User's Guide: With LSF	805-7230-10
Using ClusterTools software with the CRE	Sun MPI 4.0 User`s Guide: With CRE	806-0296-10
LSF Suite	LSF Batch User's Guide	805-6258-10
LSF Suite	LSF Parallel User's Guide	805-6259-10
LSF Suite	LSF Batch Programmer's Guide	805-6260-10
LSF Suite	LSF Batch User's Quick Reference	805-6522-10

In addition, you may want to consult the Prism(TM) documentation for information on debugging your Sun MPI program, as well as the Sun S3L documentation to learn about using the Sun Scalable Scientific Subroutine Library.

Prism	Prism 6.0 User's Guide	805-6277-10
Prism	Prism 6.0 Reference Manual	805-6278-10
Sun S3L	Sun S3L 3.0 Programming and Reference Guide	805-627`5-`10

These books, which are not provided by Sun, should be available at your local computer bookstore:

Using MPI: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface, by William Gropp, Ewing Lusk, and Anthony Skjellum (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994).

MPI: The Complete Reference, by Marc Snir, Steve W. Otto, Steven Huss-Lederman, David W. Walker, and Jack Dongarra (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995).

Parallel Programming with MPI, by Peter S. Pacheco (San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1997).

Man Pages

Man pages are also available online for all the Sun MPI and MPI I/O routines and are accessible via the Solaris(TM) man command. These man pages are usually installed in /opt/SUNWhpc/man. You may need to ask your system administrator for their location at your site.

On the World Wide Web

There is a wealth of documentation on MPI available on the World Wide Web. Here are a few URLs for Web sites:

The MPI home page, with links to specifications for the MPI-2 standard:

http://www.mpi-forum.org

Additional Web sites that provide links to papers, talks, the standard, implementations, information about MPI-2, plus pointers to many other sources:

http://www.erc.msstate.edu/mpi/

http://www.arc.unm.edu/homepage/TutorialWorkshop.html