Training Materials for HPC, MPI, Blue-Gene, IBM POWER and more by Livermore Computing Center

Livermore Computing Center has provided a series of very useful online Training Manual information for HPC users and administrator. See Livermore Computing Center High Performance Computing Training

The topics includes

1. Introduction To Parallel Computing
2. Introduction to Livermore Computing Resources
3. Moab
4. Using the Dawn BGP System
5. BG/L Tutorials
6. Using ASC Purple
7. IBM POWER Systems Overview
8. Linux Clusters Overview
9. Message Passing Interface (MPI)
10. Advanced MPI
11. POSIX Threads Programming
12. OpenMP
13. TotalView Debugger
14. ASC Tri-Lab Code Development Tools Workshop
15. IBM HPC Toolkit
16. A Holistic Approach Towards Automatic Performance Analysis and Tuning
17. Performance Analysis Tools and Topics for LC'S IBM SP Systems
18. MPI Performance Topics 
19. Performance Analysis Tools 
20. Red Storm / XT3 Workshop (LLNL internal only)
21. Using Scientific Python
22. Scientific Python II
23. Using Python Numeric
24. MPI Parallel Programming In Python

MPI Tutorials Information

Free Online MPI Tutorials and documentation

1. Intro to MPI Course Overview
2. Parallel Programming with MPI
   

Good NIS How-To Tutorials

Linux NIS (YP) Server and Tools is an excellent repository of How-To and FAQ on NIS

Reverse SSH

Thinking of using your LINUX box hehind a NAT? Here's how to do it....

First thing first:

1. Make sure you have installed OpenSSH on the destination machine.


2. ssh -R 1234:localhost:22 home_machine (where home_machine is the IP Address of your home computer)


3. Once you have established the connection, from your home type: ssh your_name@localhost -p 1234

Similar Article from HowToForge: http://www.howtoforge.com/reverse-ssh-tunneling

Cloning Linux Systems With CloneZilla Server Edition (CloneZilla SE)

Article taken from HowToForge

This tutorial shows how you can clone Linux systems with CloneZilla SE. This is useful for copying one Linux installation to multiple computers without losing much time, e.g. in a classroom, or also for creating an image-based backup of a system.

Tutorial from Cloning Linux Systems With CloneZilla Server Edition (CloneZilla SE) by HowToForge