DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' SUPERCOMPUTER!
The SuperComputing
Simplified live-CD
turns today's typical desktop and laptop computer into a
MPI-supercomputer emulator.
Our live-CD temporarily supplants your computer's operating system and gives you the operating system and software that you and your students need for supercomputer training. When our live-CD boots, linux becomes your temporary operating system. More importantly, you get MPI, the industry standard for parallel programming with multiple processors or multiple computers.
With MPI running on your computer, you can execute the exact code that would run on a supercomputer or a beowulf system. Booting our live-CD gives you all the files, path specifications, and permissions you need to run the MPI-C++ programs and exercises found in our booklet. That's right, we have taken care of all the operating system hassles.
Talking about hassles avoided, even though you are running under linux, this operating system comes with a graphical-user interface and a graphical-based text editor so you do not need to learn any more linux than we teach you. Indeed, for your first program, Chapter 1 teaches a very simple compiling procedure just like the one we use when running on a supercomputer.