Additional Information
- Chinook Supercomputer
- MSC User Policies
- Molecular Science Software Suite
- Graphics and Visualization Lab
Training
The MSC staff provides users with training to make the most of their use of Chinook and other MSC resources.
Using EMSL's supercomputer
Chinook Best Practices Coming Aug 1, 2010.
Programming tutorials
When Good Code Goes Bad Tutorial on the use of three debugging techniques: hand-coded, command line, GUI-based.
NWChem tutorials
NWChem User's Manual Release 5.1 documentation
ECCE tutorials
Ecce Online Help Web-based user documentation used by the software
Setting Up and Running a Calculation with Ecce Summary and example using Ecce tools to run a simple calculation with NWChem
Building a Simple Molecule in Ecce Example of using the Ecce Builder to construct a simple molecule for use in a calculation
Other Related Tutorials
Note: The links below leave this site 
MPI Tutorials
Message Passing Interface Forum
The MPI forum has links to the MPI standards.
Message Passing Interface (MPI)
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's introduction to MPI provides an introduction to MPI and describes how to use the basic
MPI operations in Fortran and C.
Fortran Tutorials
Fortran Tutorial
Stanford University provides this tutorial on the Fortran programming language, which includes a section on the use of BLAS and LAPACK.
C/C++ Tutorials
Programming in C UNIX System Calls and Subroutines using C
This tutorial from the University of Cardiff is a detailed description of the C programming language and a detailed description of
Unix system commands (most of which have Linux counterparts). Beginning through advanced programmers will benefit from this tutorial.
Math Library Tutorials
LAPACK Users' Guide Third Edition
The Netlib Lapack User's Guide is the definitive work on the use of Lapack.
Intel Math Kernel Library Reference Manual
Intel's reference manual.
AMD Core Math Library (ACML)
This links to AMD's "Developer Central," which contains links for the ACML User Guide and other pages related to ACML.
