Impact of Machine Architectures

Post date: Jan 14, 2011 6:14:33 PM

Reading: Interested students can go through the parallel programming paradigms from the following links

http://www.cloudbus.org/~raj/cluster/v2chap1.pdf and http://www.mhpcc.edu/training/workshop/parallel_intro/MAIN.html

Hands-on: Learn to use makefile from the the following links

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/makefiles_linux.aspx

http://linuxgazette.net/issue83/heriyanto.html

Reasons to use makefile?

• • A software project which consists of many source codes, can have complex and long compiler commands. Using make, it can be reduced.

  • Programming project sometimes need specialized compiler options that are so rarely used they are hard to remember; with make this can be reduced.

  • Maintaining a consistent development environment.

  • Automating the build process, because make can be called easily from a shell script.