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
