Supercomputing in Plain English is a weekly workshop that introduces the concepts and techniques of supercomputing in a straightforward way.
Each session is an hour long, beginning at 3:30 Eastern Time.
The workshop is conducted by the Oklahoma University Supercomuting Center for Education and Research (OSCER). The home page for the workshop is http://www.oscer.ou.edu/education.php
The home page includes a schedule, PowerPoint and PDF slides for the presentations, exercises for each session, and information from versions of the workshop given in previous years.
If you are interested, there are several ways to take advantage of this opportunity.
To register for the workshop, simply send mail to hneemanATou.edu.
By sending this email, you can also get an account on the OU supercomputing system, which will allow you to run the associated computer exercises.
I will try to host a local presentation of the workshop in the ICAM classroom, in the Wright House. We'll start at 3:30, and try to display the presentation using our computer projection system through the ILINC connection.
Anyone is welcome to attend; we have room for about 25 people. I'll be available to try to answer questions or clarify things (if I know enough to do so!).
You don't need to come to our presentation. You can always download the slides before the session, and view the streaming video after the session.
However, some people may find it a good motivation to have a time, a place, and people to talk to, while trying to learn this information.
This workshop was originally scheduled to begin January 27th, but the first session had to be postponed because of an ice storm!
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| Tue, Feb 3 | Overview: What the Heck Is Supercomputing? |
| Tue, Feb 10 | The Tyranny of the Storage Hierarchy |
| Tue, Feb 17 | Instruction Level Parallelism |
| Tue, Feb 24 | Stupid Compiler Tricks |
| Tue, Mar 3 | Shared Memory Multithreading |
| Tue, Mar 10 | NO WORKSHOP |
| Tue, Mar 17 | NO WORKSHOP |
| Tue, Mar 24 | Distributed Multiprocessing |
| Tue, Mar 31 | Applications and Types of Parallelism |
| Tue, Apr 7 | NO WORKSHOP |
| Tue, Apr 14 | Multicore Madness |
| Tue, Apr 21 | High Throughput Computing |
| Tue, Apr 28 | GPGPU: Number Crunching in Your Graphics Card |
| Tue, May 5 | Grab Bag: Scientific Libraries, I/O, Visualization |
You can go up one level to the VT2 page.