Alin Marin Elena's

I try to develop my projects under unix like operating systems. OpenSuse Factory is what I use currently as OS.

1. Compilers:
   • IntelCompilers for Linux   – Fortran and C++ both of them can be downloaded fromIntel website. The amount of information about them on the web is quite good.
   • GCC compilers - excellent and free, standard in any linux distro
2. Mathematical Libraries
   • INTEL Math Kernel Library   – provides you all the mathematical routines that you will need. It is optimised for Intel architectures, thread safe, etc.
   • If you need only a specific routine and you do not want to link against an external library   Numerical Recipes   is the right place for you. Free online versions for C, F77 and F90. For C++ version you have to pay. Be aware of issues.
3. Parallel Programming
   There are two models with which I am familiar   OpenMP   and   MPI . OpenMP is fairly simple. For MPI you need an implementation of the standard. Nothing fancy just a library against you have to link. If your computer vendor provides you an implementation use it. Otherwise try one of the freely available

   
   

   • OpenMPI   – follower of LAM/MPI
   • MPICH2
4. Documentation resources
   • for OpenMP read the compiler documentation or   LLNL OpenMP Tutorial
   • for MPI – IBM’s redbook   Practical MPI Programming   or   LLNL MPI tutorial
5. Optimization and Debugging
   Unfortunately, the best tools are not for free and they are quite expensive TotalView and Vampir/Vampirtrace derived tools. There are some free available tools, but I am really a beginner in the field and the tools are young, too.

   
   

   • parallel tools platform
   • Tuning and Analysis Utilities (TAU)
   • Again Intel,       Intel Vtune Performance Analyzer       – a powerful tool if you know how to use it. If you really want to optimize your code you should give it a try.To debug your applications     gdb is a good idea.
   • Allinea MAP is a nice alternative if you have the license money.
6. Project Management Resources
   • Cmake   the cross-platform, open-source build system. CMake is a family of tools designed to build, test and package software.
   • Doxygen   Source code documentation generator tool Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and to some extent D.
   • Git   a version control system that is/will be a compelling replacement for SVN.