8. Useful pointers
8.1 Various
- Parallel Processing using Linux
- Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO
- linux-smp mailing list
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subscribe linux-smpin the message body at majordomo@vger.kernel.orgTo unsubscribe, send
unsubscribe linux-smpin the message body at majordomo@vger.kernel.orgLinux SMP archives at progressive-comp.com
- pthread library made by Xavier Leroy
- Motherboards rumored to run Linux SMP
- procps
- procps patch for 2.2.x
- xosview
- xosview for 2.2.x
- SMP Performance of Linux
- CESDIS Linux Ethernet device drivers site
- Dual Celeron System
- LaTeX document describing implementation of MultiProcessor Linux
- IRQ affinity
8.2 Multithreaded programs and library
- Linux Threads FAQ
- Multithreaded programs on linux
- Pentium Pro Optimized BLAS and FFTs for Intel Linux (not available right now, but a dual proc library is planned for 5/27/98, see Blas News for details)
- Mesa library (with experimental multi-threading)
- Parallel plugins for The GIMP
8.3 SMP specific patches
- Patch for a bug in the 440FX chipset
- PSET - Processor Sets for the Linux kernel
- Ingo Molnar SMP patches (for experts only, please read linux-smp@vger.kernel.org)
8.4 Parallelizing/Optimizing Compilers for 586/686 machines (Sumit Roy)
- Pentium Compiler Group creators of pgcc
- Absoft , Fortran 90 and Fortran 77 compilers
- The Portland Group, Inc., supports the OpenMP standard for Fortran parallelization on Linux
- Pacific-Sierra Research Corporation, has a free F90 compiler for Linux, as well as parallelizing compilers for SMP Linux
- Applied Parallel Research, currently have parallelizing compilers for WinNT
- KAI has a C++-Compiler for Linux, that understands OpenMPI. It is called Guide_OpenMP. Info under http://www.kai.com/parallel/kappro/guide. (Gero Wedemann)
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