Bootable Cluster CD part of Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum:Platform Resources:PPPs
The Bootable Cluster CD (BCCD) is a software platform designed to allow parallel programming and distributed computing instruction to concentrate on the education and not the computing infrastructure necessary for it. It is an open source Knoppix-based live CD that provides the tools necessary to teach parallel and distributed computing (e.g., GNU compiler suite, multiple MPI bindings, OpenMP, CUDA, Java) that can be run on either a single system or on a network of computers that are automatically configured using custom networking tools to form an ad hoc temporary cluster.

Platform and Library Resources part of Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum:Platform Resources
Every module in our collection requires a given type of hardware (a platform), often running a particular operating system, combined with certain software libraries or packages. We have or are creating ...

Archive part of Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum:Platform Resources
What is a "Platform resource?" A platform resource is a physical or virtual platform for running parallel computations. Each Parallel Platform Package (PPP) library works with particular platform ...

WebMapReduce part of Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum:Platform Resources:PPPs
WebMapReduce is a simple web-based user interface for creating and submitting Hadoop Map-Reduce jobs in practically any language. It is ideally suited for use in the introductory computer science classroom, requiring very little programming experience to write massively parallel programs.

Remora part of Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum:Platform Resources:PPPs
Remora offers a free, secure, scalable, and virtual cluster for students and instructors to explore principles of Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC). Remora is a virtual, application based cluster that runs entirely in user space and requires no installation. Because of this, Remora is a free cluster that can be carried in the pocket of an instructor or student from class to class, to quickly convert an existing computer lab into a cluster.

Open MPI part of Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum:Platform Resources:PPPs
Open MPI is an open source MPI-2 implementation that is developed and maintained by a consortium of academic, research, and industry partners. Originally representing the merger of several MPI implementations, Open MPI is able to combine the expertise, technologies, and resources from all across the High Performance Computing community in order to "build the best MPI library available."

java.util.concurrent part of Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum:Platform Resources:PPPs
The standard Java package java.util.concurrent contains utility classes which are useful in implementing concurrent programming in Java. This package includes a few small standardized extensible frameworks, as well as some classes that provide useful functionality and are otherwise tedious or difficult to implement.

MPICH2 part of Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum:Platform Resources:PPPs
MPICH2 is a freely available, high-performance implementation of the MPI (Message Passing Interface), both MPI-1 and MPI-2. It is also an alternative free MPI implementation to OpenMPI. MPICH2 provides an API for message passing for parallel computing in C and C++, as well as an MPI implementation that efficiently supports different computation and communication platforms. It has been tested on several platforms, including Linux (on IA32 and x86-64), Mac OS/X (PowerPC and Intel), Solaris (32- and 64-bit), and Windows.

Intel® Threading Building Blocks part of Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum:Platform Resources:PPPs
Threading Building Blocks (TBB), created by Intel®, offers an approach to implementing parallelism in a C++ program. TBB is a library that helps programmers take advantage of multi-core processor performance without having to be an expert on threading. The library represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanisms for scalability and performance.

Raspberry Pi Kits part of Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum:Platform Resources:PPPs
Contributed by Richard Brown and Max Narvaez, St. Olaf College (rab@stolaf.edu, narvae1@stolaf.edu) Our CSinParallel workshops often use Raspberry Pi kits that consist of a Raspberry Pi single-board computer (SBC) ...