Presented 2007-03-14, 2007-11-12

• Introduction - Speaker, audience, scope of talk

• Pros and Cons - Advantages and limitations of WestGrid for code development

• Systems for Serial Programming - Choosing the WestGrid system to use

• User Environment - The interactive environment for editing, running and debugging

• Web Site Tour - Tour of WestGrid programming and software pages

• The Compilers - Survey of compilers available

• Compiler Flags - Different compiler flags for different purposes

• Code Examples - Matrix multiply examples in Fortran and C

• The make Utility - Using make to shorten the edit-compile-run cycle

• Debugging - The debugging process, debuggers and debugging examples

• Numerical Libraries - Survey of numerical libraries available on WestGrid

• Performance Profiling - Performance profiling with gprof and explicit timing calls

• Summary, Q&A, Contact for Follow-up

Last modified: 2007-11-06

Direct questions to support@westgrid.ca .