8. Useful pointers

8.1 Various

• Parallel Processing using Linux
• Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO
• linux-smp mailing list

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  Linux SMP archives

  Linux 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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