This week is a hands-on guide working in a supercomputing envrionment at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).
- HPC Carpentry Introduction to High-Performance Computing
- News article on design of new HPC system at TACC: With Vista, TACC now has three paths to its future horizon superomputer (2024)
- BOINC distributed science computing
- SETI@Home is the original distributed computing project. No longer distributing tasks, though.
- TACC's Frontera User Guide
Networking Performance Links
- Latency and IP by Geoff Huston, September 2000.
- High latency, but high throuput (i.e. put data on a disk drive and ship it) examples are Amazon Snowball and Snowmobile. Quote: "This secure data truck stores up to 100 PB of data and can help you to move exabytes to AWS in a matter of weeks."
- One can Use non-TCP and non-IP protocols like Internet2, ESnet (DOE), NSF FABRIC Testbed, or custom (e.g. Facebook
- Popular press article: Connecting the South Pole