Windows NT resources for high performance computing

Resources for High Performance Computing on Windows NT

This page is designed to provide resources and tools for High Performance Computing on Windows NT systems. It is maintained by Concurrent Systems Architecture Group (CSAG) , and primarily derived from information collected with our development of High Performance Virtual Machines. It is intended for a general user community, but in particular for scientists supported by NCSA. We do try to keep the page up to date, so send information to us about new tools webmaster.

PARALLEL COMPUTING

HPVM ( High Performance Virtual Machines ) provides software for building the cluster of standard commodity computers based on Pentium Pro/II processor. The focus is on high parallel performance on large compute jobs.

PERFORMANCE TOOLS

VTune - Visual Tuning Environment Intel's profile-based performance tuning tool. Provides system-wide monitoring, hotspot analysis, static code analysis, tuning advice, static assembly code analysis, and dynamic simulation analysis.
Etch is an application program performance evaluation and optimization system, developed by Harvard and U Washington.
PGPROF Workstation for Intel Pentium Pro ( early 1998 ) is a powerful interactive performance analysis tool for parallel application on Pentium Pro system developed by the Portland Group.
Paradyn Parallel Performance Tools is a tool for measuring and analyzing the performance of parallel and distributed programs.

HIGH THROUGHPUT COMPUTING TOOLS

Symbio is a resource sharing system based on DCOM. Symbio also provides access to idle CPU cycles on machines which are distributed across an NT domain.
Condor is a resource sharing system initially developed on Unix. A port to Windows NT is in progress.

COMPILERS & PREPROCESSORS

C/C++ Compilers

Microsoft Visual C++ is a C++ compiler and development environment.
Intel C/C++ Compiler is a C/C++ compiler tuned for high performance on Intel Architecture processors.
PGCC Workstation for Intel Pentium Pro ( early 1998 ) is a native parallelizing/optimizing C++ compiler for Intel Pentium Pro workstations from the Portland Group, Inc.
PGcc Workstation for Intel Pentium Pro (early 1998) is a native parallelizing/optimizing ANSI C compiler for Intel Pentium Pro workstations, is designed to extract maximum performance from compute-intensive, floating-point array-based applications.
QNX High-Performance Compiler & Tools is a certified ANSI C/C++ compiler.

Fortran Compilers

Intel Fortran Compiler is a Fortran compiler tuned for high performance on Intel Architecture processors.
PGF77 Workstation for Intel Pentium Pro (early 1998) is a native parallelizing/optimizing Fortran 77 compiler for Intel Pentium Pro and Pentium II workstations.
DIGITAL Visual Fortran is an implementation of the Fortran programming language that supports the Fortran 66, Fortran 77, and Fortran 90 standards.

Preprocessors

KAP/Pro Toolset is a system of tools that assist software developers who need to parallelize large scale, scientific-engineering software. The KAP/Pro Toolset maximizes performance, portability, and productivity by implementing portable parallel processing directives on all popular shared memory parallel (SMP) systems that suport threads.
Visual KAP is a preprocessor that allows Windows NT Fortran 77/90/95 and C programmers to get significant speedups. Visual KAP automatically parallelizes your code by inserting calls to its parallel library to allow your code to run on multiple processors.
KAP Optimizer
PGHPF Workstation for Intel Pentium Pro (early 1998) is currently implemented as a pre-processor to PGF77. Will not be fully Fortran 90 compliant until a late 1997 maintenance release which supports native Pentium Pro code generation.

HARDWARE INTERCONNECTS

Myrinet is Myricom's cost-effective and Gigabit-per-second network based on the technology used for packet communication and switching within concurrent and parallel supercomputers. Myrinet now is particularly popular for connecting "clusters" of computers. HPVM1.0 uses Myrinet as its Pentium Pro/II cluster interconnects for its Myrinet version.
ServerNet is a Tandem's low-cost, high-performance, reliable cluster interconnect architecture technology.ServerNet SAN is available from multiple vendors on Intel based PC server running Windows NT Server and from Tandem on its NonStop Himalaya, UNIX system-based Integrity S4000, and Windows NT Server platforms. In addition, Microsoft will include Tandem's ServerNet drivers in its clustering products. The HPVM project will support Servernet in a subsequent release.
Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) is an emerging standard interface for low-latency, high-bandwidth message-passing between interconnected nodes and interconnect storage devices, i.e. clusters. It is being jointly promoted by Compaq/Intel/Microsoft.

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Last updated Oct. 3, 1997

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