On this page is information relating getting the most out of the Alpha processor. Included are links to the new Compaq compilers and libraries as well as the fast math libraries.

• Performance Tips for AlphaLinux
• Compaq Fortran compiler for AlphaLinux
• Compaq C compiler for AlphaLinux
• Compaq C++ compiler for AlphaLinux
• CPML Compaq Portable Math Library
• CXML Compaq Extended Math Library
• EV6 Assembly routines for the Linux kernel
• A few hand-coded BLAS (basic linear algebra subroutines)- 700+ MFlop/s!!
• Performance Tuning Guide Originally for the R10000
• Reasons for using Fortran over C or C++
• Article on Alpha Optimization written by David Mosberger
• Performance Optimization on Alpha Linux Workstations

Alpha Processor and Assembly Documentation

• Assembly Language Programmer's Guide
• Digital Unix Calling Standards for Alpha
• Digital Portable Mathematics Library
• Alpha Architecture Handbook Version 3
• Hardware Reference Manual for the 21164

Beowulf

• Beowulf Project at CESDIS
• Beowulf HOWTO
• Message-passing tools for Structured Grid communications (MSG)
• University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Beowulf System
• http://www.extremelinux.org/
• beowulf-underground.org Beowulf Underground

Alpha Linux Success Stories

• NOAA chooses AlphaLinux to power next-gen forecasting lab. The choice itself is a success! :-)
• Avalon at Los Alamos National Lab, (140 boxes, #114 supercomputer in the world for just over $300K)
• Digital Domain's 200 Alpha cluster that did the rendering for Titanic
• Sandia National Laboratories Computational Plant