Here are a list of links to interesting readings related to this course.
Q: Is Supercomputing dead? (Oct 1994) A: There is a Future for High-performance Computing (Sep 98)
Is this the supercomputing model for the future? Beowulf Or this? Blue Gene - Petaflop Supercomputer
Documents Relating to STAR-P and Predecessors
Parallel MATLAB® Survey
Grid Computing Info Center - All you Need to Know about Grid Computing
Globus - One of the Major Computational Grid Projects
World Record for Largest Dense Linear System Solved (Though Really a Structured Application of Multipole)
Held by UIUC
MPI - Message Passing Interface
SETI@home - distributed Computing over the Internet
Netlib - Collection of Mathematical Software, Many of them Parallel
The ACTS Toolkit - a Collection of Scientific Computation Software, Many of them will be Discussed in the Course
ParMETIS - A Parallel Graph Partitioning Software
TOP500 Supercomputers
ASC - Home of the Fastest Computer in the World
Parascope - A Listing of Parallel Computing Sites
Pictures of Supercomputers
A Timeline of Supercomputing History