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HPC Training

LONI High Performance Computing Workshop--University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)

HPC @ LSU will have a LONI High Performance Computing Workshop to be held in University of Louisiana at Lafayette, on October 26 & 27, 2009. The workshop will be held in the Advanced Computer Technology and Research (ACTR) Hall room 113. The street address of the building is 301 East Lewis Street, Lafayette, LA 70503. The map of the ULL campus can be found HERE.

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10-22-2009 update:

The workshop will be an introductory workshop covering overview of LONI and TeraGrid, introduction to LONI HPC environment of Dell Linux machines, introduction to Parallel Computing, introduction to MPI and practical MPI, introduction to programming with OpenMP.

Prerequisites: Programming experience in C or Fortran (All examples will be in C and Fortran), a LONI account, and a laptop.

LONI Account: This workshop will be including hands-on execises on LONI supercomputers, therefore a LONI account is needed for each attendee. If you don't have a LONI account, please request one HERE. You have to put in a valid email address and a link to the account request form will be sent to that email address. You click the link in your email message and you will be directed to the account request form. Please fill that form to request a LONI account (You may put your advisor as your LONI Contact/Collaborator if you are a student, postdoctoral researcher or research associate).

Laptop: This workshop will be including hands-on execises on LONI supercomputers, therefore each participant needs to bring a laptop with SSH or PuTTY installed. If you do not have a laptop, please contact Raju N. Gottumukkala at raju@louisiana.edu so that he can try his best to provide one for you.

The workshop is over.

This training will be a two day workshop introducing the user to High Performance Computing. University of Louisiana at Lafayette will provide lunch and refreshments to all participants. Thanks ULL for the hospitality!

The tentative workshop schedule is as follow:

LONI HPC workshop

October 26Topics
 8:00  -   8:30Registration
 8:30  -   9:15Overview of HPC - LSU, LONI and TeraGrid
 9:15  - 10:15Introduction to Linux
10:15  - 10:30Break
11:30  - 12:00Introduction to Vi
12:00  -  1:00Lunch
 1:00  -  3:00LONI Programming Environment
 3:00  -  3:15Break
 3:15  -  4:00LONI Programming Environment
 4:00  -  5:00Globus Procedures
October 27Topics
  8:00  -  10:00Introduction to Gaussian
 10:00  -  10:15Break
 10:15  -  11:30Parallel Programming Concepts
 11:30  - 12:00Cyberinfrastructure for Disaster Preparedness and Response -- Dr. Raju Gottumukkala
12:00  -  1:00Lunch
  1:00 -  2:00Introduction to MPI
 2:00 -  3:00Introduction to OpenMP
 3:00  - 3:15Break
 3:15  -  4:30 Introduction to TotalView
 4:30  -  5:00Q & A and wrap up