• SP2 hardware information (site specific)
• Interactive vs. batch access
• Sources of information

• The "Art" of distributed-memory programming
• SPMD Versus MPMD programming
• Choosing a message passing library

• Differences between PVM and PVMe
• PVM/PVMe example in Fortran
• PVM/PVMe example in C

• MPL example in Fortran
• MPL example in C

• Compiling message-passing programs
• Using the LoadLeveler batch control system
  • Batch commands
  • Generic batch scripts
  • Batch job preparation utilities
• Using the LoadLeveler command file generator Extoll
• Extoll: Easy X-interface to LoadLeveler for Parallel Jobs on the NIST IBM SP2 (8 pages, postscript)

• Introduction
• Managing message passing programming sessions
• Debugging PVM(e) programs
• Tutorial examples

XPVM program monitoring on the SP2