Index_P

P

packets

filtering, 108–109, 134–137, 137

IP, 97, 108

PAPI, 70

Paragon, 580

Parallel I/O

with MPI, 264

parallel performance

HPL, 275

NAS parallel benchmarks, 14

parallel file system, 494, 495

parallel I/O, 493

parallel performance

mpptest, 274

SKaMPI, 275

parameter study, 190

parents, 246

ParMetis, 347

PARMON, 362

partial differential equation, 8

passive target and RMA synchronization, 270

PBS, 447

accounting, 467

API, 457

architecture, 450

benefits, 449

commands, 455

configuration, 458

creating a job, 452

GUI, 455

history, 447

installing, 457

managing, 465

MOM daemon, 451

overview, 449

querying status, 454

scheduler daemon, 451

server daemon, 451

starting, 465

stopping, 465

submitting a job, 453

tracking jobs, 466

trackjob, 466

troubleshooting, 468

using, 451

PBS Pro, 448

PBSPro, 427

PC, 583

PCI, 583

PDE, 8

time marching, 8

PDE solving, 220

pdsh, 371

performance

achievable, 5

achieved, 9

complexity model, 7

memory bandwidth, 9

peak, 11

Performance Co-Pilot, 362

performance counters

PAPI, 70

Rabbit, 70

performance tests

HPL, 275

mpptest, 274

SKaMPI, 275

Perl, 185

persistent messages, 331

Personal Computer or PC, 583

Petal, 499

PETSc, 342

pi

Monte Carlo, 229

numerical integration for, 226

ping, 126, 138

PLAPACK, 339

Holy Grail eigensolver in, 344

Poisson equation, 220

Poisson problem, 199

policy enforcement, 375

PolyServe, 366

pool of machines, 408

port, 182

POSIX 1003.2d, 448, 450

POSIX I/O

implementing, 509

semantics, 508

PowerCockpit, 152

PowerPC, 25

PowerQuest Drive Image, 152

PREEMPT macro, 417

preemption in job scheduling, 439

PREEMPTION_RANK macro, 418

PREEMPTION_REQUIREMENTS macro, 418

priority of a job, 393

process, 175

process id

global, 471

processors, 23

Alpha, 25

Athlon, 25

G5, 25

hyperthreading, 24

Itanium, 26

Opteron, 26

Pentium 4, 24

Pentium III, 25

PowerPC, 25

SSE, 24

SSE2, 24

profiling library, 242

program, 175

program counter, 175

programming model

message-passing, 207

one-sided, 268

shared nothing, 201

protocols

IP, 97

TCP, 98–99

UDP, 97

PVFS, 35, 505, 583

aggregate bandwidth, 518

file descriptors, 515

handling disk failures, 515

MPI-IO hints, 521

multiple file systems, 514

semantics, 512

strip size, 519

tuning, 516

upgrading, 515

using with ROMIO, 519

pvfs-ping, 514

pvfs-test, 518

PVFS2, 525

data migration, 530

PVM, 279, 315, 583

computing model, 281

console, 312

group functions, 295, 296

grouping tasks, 282

hostfile, 310

language support, 282

message handler functions, 328

message handlers, 328

multicast, 296

setup, 308

shutdown, 310

starting programs, 311

startup, 309

pvm_barrier, 295

pvm_initsend, 287

pvm_parent, 286

pvm_spawn, 323

PXE, 31

Python, 185