VT FDI Summer 2009 Track V
Using Virginia Tech High Performance Computing

From 26-28 May 2009, I will be an instructor for a 3 day workshop on "Using Virginia Tech High Performance Computing", sponsored by the Faculty Development Initiative. The class will be held in Room 3060, Torgersen Hall with Lunch Breaks in Room 1100, Torgersen Hall. The classes run from 8:30am to 4:30pm, with breaks for coffee and lunch.

Official Description from FDI Website:

Track V - Using Virginia Tech HPC

This hands-on summer track will introduce participants to the systems and resources available for High-Performance Computing at Virginia Tech. Attendees will learn skills for including computational science in their research. Topics will include shared and distributed memory systems, the VT and TeraGrid allocation process, compilers and flags for VT HPC, submitting jobs to the queuing systems, OpenMP and OpenMPI programming basics, debuggers, and visualization tools. This course will give faculty the practical skills for scaling research to VT's HPC infrastructure. Academic support staff and graduate teaching assistants may participate with faculty as a 2-person project team.

Lecture Notes:

1. fdi_2009_history.pdf,
   "Parallel Programming Prehistory",
   Virginia Tech Faculty Development Initiative, 26-28 May 2009;
2. fdi_2009_parallel.pdf,
   "Parallel Programming Concepts",
   Virginia Tech Faculty Development Initiative, 26-28 May 2009;
3. fdi_2009_matlab.pdf,
   "MATLAB Parallel Programming",
   Virginia Tech Faculty Development Initiative, 26-28 May 2009;
4. fdi_2009_openmp.pdf,
   "OpenMP Shared Memory Programming",
   Virginia Tech Faculty Development Initiative, 26-28 May 2009;
5. fdi_2009_mpi.pdf,
   "MPI Distributed Memory Programming",
   Virginia Tech Faculty Development Initiative, 26-28 May 2009;

Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 8:30-4:30

8:30-9:20	Introduction	Kevin Shipaugh
9:20-10:10	Parallel Programming Prehistory	John Burkardt
10:10-10:30	break
10:30-12:00	Parallel Programming Concepts	John Burkardt
12:00-1:10	lunch
1:10-1:40	The Scholar Learning and Collaboration System
1:40-2:40	Parallel Matlab	John Burkardt
2:40-3:00	break
3:00-4:30	Parallel Matlab Exercises	John Burkardt

Wednesday, 27 May 2009 8:30-4:30

8:30-10:10	OpenMP	John Burkardt
10:10-10:30	break
10:30-12:00	OpenMP Exercises	John Burkardt
12:00-1:10	lunch
1:10-1:40	Hunting for and Protecting Sensitive Data	Nick Pachis
1:40-2:40	MPI	John Burkardt
2:40-3:00	break
3:00-4:30	MPI Exercises	John Burkardt

Thursday, 28 May 2009, 8:30-4:30

8:30-10:10	Principles of Visual Communication and Analysis	Nicholas Polys
10:10-10:30	break
10:30-12:00	Visualization Tools and Publishing	Nicholas Polys
12:00-1:10	lunch
1:10-1:40	Campus Resources	Ed Schwartz
1:40-2:40	?	Nicholas Polys
2:40-3:00	break
3:00-4:30	Visualization Exercises	Nicholas Polys

Exercises:

There will be four hands-on sessions during the workshop. Here are instructions for the first three hands-on sessions:

1. Parallel MATLAB exercises
2. OpenMP exercises
3. MPI exercises

1. list of all the exercise files

You can go up one level to the main web page.