On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 16:57 +0200, hugo rivera wrote: > I'm about to start a course that goes by the title of "Computational > Physics", and as I was having a look at the items that we are going to > cover, and saw that there's an "Introduction to parallel computing and > parallel programming with Message Passing Interface (MPI)". Some of > you 9fans may be familiar with this protocol, any comments on it? can > you recommend a book on this topic (not MPI, but concurrent stuff in > general)? Don't know of any books. Read the book the instructor recommends. Here are a couple good sites with interesting articles on parallel programming in general:
http://www.devx.com/SpecialReports/Door/40893 http://www.drdobbs.com/high-performance-computing/ Having access to an operational cluster to test things on while you are learning helps. In your class you will likely be given access to a cluster. Happy coding! -Andrew Smart
