Some documents and links on parallel computing, super computing:
1. My own notes:
2. A few links on general descriptions of (hardware) parallel computing :
fiber in parallel computing (doc.ic.ac.uk)
Introduction parallel computing (1) (llnl.gov)
Introduction parallel computing (2) (mhpcc.edu)
Message passing model (1) (mcs.anl.gov)
Message passing model (2) (ccr.buffalo.edu)
Beowulf cluster-like with Linux (1) (sinica.edu.tw)
General overview (ice.gelato.org)
3. A few links on parallel "computing/processing/queries" in Applications and/or Databases :
3.1 Teradata:
Quick Overview (teradatatech.com)
What is Terradata (wikipedia.org)
Tutorial/Architecture (coffingdw.com)
Documentation / resource center (teradata.com)
Bit old, but still informative pdf (teradata.com)
3.2 Hadoop:
What is Hadoop (wikipedia.org)
Hadoop & Map/Reduced (1) (developer.yahoo.com)
Hadoop & Map/Reduced (2) (www-01.ibm.com)
Setting up a hadoop cluster (cs.brandeis.edu)
3.3 Netezza:
Architectural Comparison Netezza (digident-solutions.com)
What is Netezza (1) (wikipedia.org)
What is Netezza (2) (datavigya.com)
A blog on Netezza
Netezza resource center
3.4 General Discussions, Scaling horizontally/vertically:
Building a scalable architecture for webapps (wiki.directi.com)
3.5 DB2 - parallel and partitioning - and "Inter-Partition Parallelism":
Leverage data partitioning (ibm.com)
Overview partitioning (1) (caspur.it)
Overview partitioning (2) (caspur.it)
Overview partitioning (3) (ibm.com)
3.6 SQL Server 2008 R2 "Parallel Datawarehouse":
Overview SQL Server 2008 R2 "Parallel Datawarehouse" (microsoft.com)
What MPP means to SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (sqlpdw.com)
Overview SQL Server 2008 R2 "Parallel Datawarehouse" (businessintelligence.info)
4. A few links on Super Computers and Architecture :
Top 500 supercomputers (top500.org)
Overview Supercomputers (2005, still good, phys.uu.nl)
Overview Supercomputers (2010, euroben.nl)
lapack (wikipedia)
Super computer clusters (wikipedia)
Example (cluster) configuration (1)
Example (cluster) configuration (2)
Last update: 15 March, 2011