Archive of old files on Rohan 19May05
Archive of NPACI Parallel Workshop Aug02
11th Annual Computing Institute Summer 2005 - SDSC
Text: High Performance Computing, Second Edition,
Kevin Dowd & Charles Severance, O'Reilly & Associates, 1998
Course Description/Syllabus and Gateway to Calendar
Calendar
Course Assignments with Updated Due Dates (3Nov03)
CS 575 is an interdisciplinary course to introduce students in the sciences, engineering and other programming related disciplines to advanced computing techniques using the supercomputers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). Additional architectures may also be explored. The computing projects have a goal to effectively use, by the end of the course, MPI on Rohan as well as MPI on the IBM SP, Blue Horizon.
Prerequisites are a programming background in Fortran or C
Problem solving skills will be enhanced through computational
experiments that will involve individual and
group (collaborative)
learning exercises. This emphasizes how science is done these
days - involving collaboration, investigation and communcation.
The IBM Blue Horizon,
at the San Diego Supercomputer Center,
is a computing engine with 1,152 processors that is available to the
academic community.
Beowulf Clusters are also parallel computers that can assembled
using group of PCs with the NPACI Rocks software.
These machines are fast number crunching machines whose floating point
performance is exceptional.
Care is taken to introduce UNIX (at a functional level),
develop students' familiarity with local computing resources (Rohan)
and software tools (timers, profilers, Answerbook, and more),
develop students' understanding of the concept of performance
and how to measure and interpret it - all in lectures and labs with
the instructor.
Having Experience Programming Supercomputers
on your resume will set you apart