NPAC 1996 REU Labs, Tutorials, and References

Labs

  1. The Getting Started Lab shows everyone how to logg into Syracuse University and NPAC machines, and describes the computing environment organization.
  2. The Fortran77 Lab uses a simple example to illustrate the use of sequential Fortran on NPAC machines.
  3. The Fortran 90 Lab uses a Jacobi iteration example. Students practice writing, compiling and running variations of this program in Fortran 90.
  4. The High Performance Fortran (HPF) Lab takes the codes written in the Fortran 90 lab and converts them to HPF so they can be run on parallel computers.
  5. The Message Passing Interface (MPI) Lab containing information, tutorials and documentation on MPI and the MPICH compiler used at NPAC, as well as examples and exercises.
  6. Perl Lab & Resources. This contains an introductory lab on Perl, as well as a links to a large number of World Wide Web Perl Resources.
  7. Web Forms and CGI. An introductory lab on creating fill-out forms and CGI perl scripts.
  8. Java An introductory lab using graphics features of Java.


Tutorials

  1. World Wide Web and HTML Tutorials. Contains information on using the World Wide Web, and information and tutorials on how to create HTML documents.
  2. The NPAC LaTeX Page. A page filled with resource information on LaTeX -- this page is maintained by Gregor von Laszewski.
  3. Tutorial on Distributed Computing with High Performance Fortran (HPF) written by Hon Yau.
  4. Unix Commands is a very useful reference to learn the "UNIX tricks of the Trade", written by Jason Krug.


References

NPAC REU Program, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University.
Questions/ Comments: reu-staff@npac.syr.edu. Last updated May 25 1996 by JCK.