Storage Area Network
consisting of 2GB FC 16 port switches and a
Brocade 2800 FC Switch
5.
PCs/Workstations
used as consoles to PARAM Padma
6.
Two Compaq
Evo W6000 Graphic Workstations running Slackware
Linux 9.0 and Windows 2000 and a number of user
terminals on the LAN to connect the PARAM Padma
cluster
7.
Laser Printer
Software Resources:
1.
Operating System The Operating System of PARAM Padma is AIX
5L which supports multithreading and multiprocessing.
This system V-style Unix provides a familiar
development environment to the users. An optional
Linux operating system is also provided.
2.
Compilers and Related Tools
The following compilers and related tools
are available on PARAM Padma:
XL Fortran compiler and RTE 8.1
F90 Compiler
F77 Compiler
C Compiler 6.0, C for AIX
C++ Compiler, Visualage C
CAF90 Compiler - Parallel Fortran Compiler
jointly developed by C-DAC and Apogee
C-F77to90
- A Converter for Fortran77 to Fortran90
programs developed by C-DAC
Complete gcc & gnu libtools
3.
Parallel Processing Libraries
Message Passing Interface (MPI) - IBM
PE (Parallel Environment)
MPICH 13 - Public domain MPI, MPICH 1.2.4
for XL & gcc, g77
C-MPI
- An optimized implementation of MPI for
PARAM Padma by C-DAC
KSHIPRA
- Communication substrate developed by C-DAC
4.
Parallel Numerical Libraries
IBM ESSL & PESSL
SCALAPACK
LINPACK
PLAPACK
PetSC
PCOMA CCOMA benchmarking tools developed
by C-DAC
6.
Program Development Tools
DIViA
- Set of tools for debugging a parallel
program - developed by C-DAC
Metric
Advisor - Tools for software engineering
metrics - developed by C-DAC
