Getting Started
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UNIX Tutorials for Beginners
INTERMEDIATE LINUX
LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition
"Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting" by Mendel Cooper Book Link
This one primarily applies to space science:
"Version control with Subversion" Read the Version 1.4 edition Redbook link
When you compile your code, it is a good idea to use a name other than the default "a.out"
Recommended method: 'gcc hello.c -o hello' because now you know the executable is hello's.
Bad form: 'gcc hello.c' because it always names the executable "a.out"
Although presented as a joke, the following page shows many ways of writing a "hello world" program Helloworld
An exhaustive collection of Hello World is located at
Advanced Skills
Advanced users may want to explore building their projects with autotools.
See autotoolset
The venerable hello world is presented in this section:
Books other group members recommend
Here are some more/less technically oriented resources which may/may not help beginner's boot strap into HPC
Upgrading to Fortran 90, Redwine, 1995
MPI The Complete Reference, Snir et al, 1996
Using MPI, Gropp, Lusk & Skjellum, 1999
SIMD Programing Manual for Linux and Windows, Cockshot & Renfrew, 2004
GCC online documentation, free online
Parallel Programming in OpenMP, Chandra et al, 1990
Parallel Programming with MPI, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997, by P. Pacheco
A Programmers Companion to Algorithm Analysis, Leiss, 2007
STL Tutorial and Reference Guide, Mursser, 2001
Large-Scale C++ Software Design, Lakos, 1996, Scott Meyers,
and for those who know absolutely nothing: Programming with Gnu Software, Loukides & Oram, 1997
