Online (and other) References for Users

Online UNIX Resources

UNIX help for users
Helpful information for users of the UNIX operating system, developed at the University of Edinburgh.
A Scientist's and Engineer's Guide to Workstations and Supercomputers
An electronic survival kit from NACSE (Northwest Alliance for Computational Science & Engineering) for a scientific computing project from start to finish under a UNIX operating system.
Norman Matloff's UNIX and Linux Tutorial Center
University of Surrey - UNIX Tutorial for Beginners
VI Information

Designing and Building Parallel Programs
An online book and tutorial by Ian Foster at Argonne National Laboratory.
Parallel Programming Concepts
This primer from the Cornell Theory Center introduces you to major concepts of parallel processing and its efficient realization.
Distributed Memory Computing
This presentation from the Cornell Theory Center provides you with an overview of the significant features of one type of parallel processing, distributed memory computing.
Parallel Computing, Performance/Cost Models, and Interconnection Networks
Notes from Prof. Dr. Jop Frederik Sibeyn (Halle University, Institute of Computer Science) on parallel computation and how communication is decomposed on differing switch fabrics.

Message Passing Interface Forum
This location contains the official MPI (Message Passing Interface) standards documents, errata, and archives of the MPI Forum. The MPI Forum is an open group with representatives from many organizations that define and maintain the MPI standard.
LAM MPI Tutorial
Computational PDE unit: MPI Tutorial
University of Leeds short tutorial on using MPI to solve partial differential equations.

Fortran 90 Introduction
A brief Fortran 90 tutorial with examples.
Fortran 90, 95 and 2003 Home Page
Fortran information and sources
An Interactive Fortran 90 Programming Course
This HTML / Java course describes the Fortran 90 Programming language and assumes a basic knowledge of programming.
Advanced F90 Tutorial

Parallel Programming, by Barrry Wilkinson (2nd edition)
Using MPI, by Barry Gropp, Ewing Lusk and Anthony Skjellum
RS/6000 Practical MPI Programming (PDF)
This is a very informative book discussing both basic and advanced concepts of MPI programming.