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Spring 2009

Introduction to Linux and Vi
Welcome to HPC: accounts, allocations, Linux and Linux cluster environment
Introduction to MPI
Practical MPI
Introduction to OpenMP
OpenMP part 2
Introduction to MATLAB
An introduction to the computational chemistry package, Gaussian 03
Introduction to LAPACK
Introduction to Hybrid MPI and OpenMP
Introduction to Linux and Vi
Debugging with Totalview
Introduction to Open Source Vizualization Software
Introduction to Compilers on the Dell Linux Clusters
PetaShare Environment and Client Tools
Introduction to Tau
Introduction to Globus Procedures
Stork: Organizing Data Transfer Activities
Introduction to Cactus

Title	Introduction to Linux and Vi
Date	Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Time	1:00 pm until 4:00
Place	338 Johnston
Description	Very basic introduction to both Linux and to the Vi editor.
Prerequisites	None

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Title	Welcome to HPC: accounts, allocations and the cluster environments.
Date	Thursday, January 29, 2009
Time	1:00 pm until 4:00 pm
Place	338 Johnston
Description	An introduction to: accounts, allocations Linux, Linux cluster environment.
Prerequisites	Basic Linux and programming in C or Fortran

Title	Introduction to MPI
Date	Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Time	10:00 am until noon
Place	338 Johnston
Description	A basic introduction to the concepts of MPI programming.
Prerequisites	You must have programming background in C, C++ or Fortran. All examples will be in C or Fortran. Linux basic commands and concepts will be helpful also. You MUST have an account on a LONI or LSU HPC machine to participate in the hands on exercises.

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Title	Practical MPI
Date	Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Time	10:00 am until noon
Place	338 Johnston
Description	In this class, we will review multiple serial algorithms, and discuss the pros and cons of parallelizing the algorithm. We will then program these algorithms in C/C++/Fortran, and test their execution on the LONI supercomputers.
Prerequisites	MPI part 1 You must have programming background in C, C++ or Fortran. All examples will be in C or Fortran. You MUST have an account on a LONI or LSU HPC machine to participate in the hands on exercises.

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Access Grid scheduler.

Title	Introduction to OpenMP
Date	Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Time	10:00 am until noon
Place	338 Johnston
Description	This class will discuss the basics of shared memory programming with a focus on how they apply to OpenMP. OpenMP basics will be introduced, including how to compile a very simple OpenMP program.
Prerequisites	MPI part 1 You must have programming background in C, C++ or Fortran. All examples will be in C or Fortran. You MUST have an account on a LONI or LSU HPC machine to participate in the hands on exercises.

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Title	OpenMP part 2
Date	Thursday, February 26, 2009
Time	1:30 pm until 3:30 pm
Place	338 Johnston
Description	This tutorial will pick up where OpenMP 1 concluded. Topics covered include work sharing of loops and parallel sections among threads. Features important for ensuring thread-safe operations and variable updating, such as critical sections and atomic variable updating, are covered.
Prerequisites	You must have programming background in C, C++ or Fortran. All examples will be in C or Fortran. You MUST have an account on a LONI or LSU HPC machine to participate in the hands on exercises.

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Title	Introduction to MATLAB
Date	Monday, March 2, 2009
Time	1:00 pm until 4:00 pm
Place	338 Johnston
Description	This tutorial gives information on how to get started with using MATLAB for scientific computations. Topics may include the MATLAB UI and basic MATLAB programming techniques such as data representation and storage, vectorized computations, function calls and definitions, text output production, graphical output and designing GUI, using MATLAB code in C/C++ programs, deploying MATLAB applications, parallel computing with MATLAB, and so on.
Prerequisites	You MUST have an account on LONI or HPC clusters. Basic knowledge of linear algebra and matrix theory.

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Title	An introduction to the computational chemistry package, Gaussian 03
Date	Thursday, March 12
Time	1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Place	338 Johnston
Description	Theory, basis sets, modelling, Gaussian job creation/ submission/ analysis Additional programs that will be covered: Molden (http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/molden/molden.html) Molekel (http://www.bioinformatics.org/molekel/wiki/Main/HomePage)
Prerequisites	Linux, chemistry

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Introduction to Linux or basic Linux experience: log on, change directory, make directory, create files, move, cp, etc.
Account on LSU or LONI HPC account
Attended the Cluster Environment tutorial.

Title	Canceled: Advanced Environment
Date	Canceled: Will be rescheduled
Time	Canceled: 10:00 am to noon
Place	338 Johnston
Description	The tutorial on advanced Unix environment will cover details that will allow users to more effectively utilize the shell and interactive environment, where a GUI is usually not efficient nor practical. Topics covered include: what is a shell, manipulating your environment, introduction into basic unix utilities, how to utlize mutiple simple unix utilities together to accomplish complex tasks, and an introduction to shell scripting.
Prerequisites	TBA
Registration

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Title	Introduction to LAPACK
Date	Monday, March 16, 2009
Time	10:00 am to noon
Place	338 Johnston
Description	This tutorial gives information on how to use LAPACK, the linear algebra package. Topics may include problems that LAPACK can solve, using LAPACK in Fortran/C/C++ programs, compiling programs with LAPACK code, brief introduction to ScaLAPACK, and so on.
Prerequisites	Basic knowledge of linear algebra and matrix theory.

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Title	Introduction to Hybrid MPI and OpenMP
Date	Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Time	10:00 am to noon
Place	338 Johnston
Description	This tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of MPI and OpenMP, and strives to introduce the topic of building distributed, shared memory applications. Topics covered include how to mix MPI and OpenMP in a single program and 3 example approaches for coupling many shared memory programs by using MPI to facilitate the sharing of information amoung them. Participants are left with various and issues to ponder.
Prerequisites	Programming ability with use of both MPI and OpenMP.

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Title	Introduction to Linux and Vi
Date	Thursday, March 19, 2009
Time	1:00 pm until 4:00
Place	338 Johnston
Description	Very basic introduction to both Linux and to the Vi editor.
Prerequisites	None

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Title	Cancelled Debugging with Totalview
Date	Monday, March 23, 2009
Time	10:00 am until noon
Place	338 Johnston
Description	An introduction to debugging parallel code with Totalview
Prerequisites	Ability to write parallel code

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Title	Introduction to Open Source Vizualization Software: SciViz presentation 1 SciViz presentation 2
Date	March 25, 2009
Time	10:00 am to noon
Place	338 Johnston
Description	Introduce open-source visualization tools used in different scientific categories, explain their functionalities and feature list. Case studies of data analysis and data manipulation in order to get scientific results from your data or simulation. Simple python coding examples used in: data format transformation; perform necessary computation and data processing during visualization; pipeline optimization and offline batch process after interactive visualization on sample data, etc.
Prerequisites	Basic UNIX or Linux knowledge.

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Title	Introduction to Compilers on the Dell Linux Clusters
Date	Wednesday, April 1
Time	10:00 am to noon
Place	338 Johnston
Description	This class offers an overview on the functionalities of the compilers on HPC Dell Linux clusters. The following topics will be covered: basic compiler options; debugging with compilers; compiler optimization.
Prerequisites	Basic knowledge of Linux and/or other unix-based operating systems.

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Title	i PetaShare Environment and Client Tools PetaShare Handouts
Date	Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Time	10:00 am until 12:30 pm
Place
Description	The aim of this tutorial is to make researchers familiar with the PetaShare environment. After this tutorial, users will be able to utilize PetaShare resources and access and use client tools. This tutorial will state the differences between client tools and help users to identify which one is right for them.
Topics	Introduction to PetaShare What is PetaShare Brief System Overview Using PetaShare Which Client tool is right for you? Installation and Usage of client tools Petashell Authorization and Authentication Simple data transfer to PetaShare from local machine. Running a local application that input and output data reside in PetaShare. Petafs Authorizing and Authentication Mounting PetaShare resources on a local machines. Running an application through petafs filesystem. Pcommands Authorization and Authentication Uplodaing and downloading data to/from PetaShare resources User Support Comments and Questions on PetaShare
Prerequisites	Linux command line environment Data storage on LSU/LONI non-PetaShare environments

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Title	Introduction to Tau
Date	Wednesday, April 22
Time	10:00 to noon
Place	338 Johnston
Description	Tuning and Analysis Utilities (TAU) is a powerful and versatile suite of tools that allow people to analyze and profile the performance of their codes (especially parallel codes). In this tutorial we will go over various performance analysis capabilities provided by TAU, as well as how to use them through hands-on exercises.
Prerequisites	Basic knowledge on the execution model of computer programs would not hurt

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Title	Introduction to Globus Procedures
Date	Wednesday, April 29
Time	10:00 am to noon
Place	338 Johnston
Description	Job submission with GRAM GridFTP Reliable File Transfer Replica Location Service Security and Certificats on the Grid Implementing a grid application
Prerequisites	Linux Environment Distributed Computing

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Title	Stork: Organizing Data Transfer Activities
Date	April 27, 2009
Time	10:00 am to noon
Place	338 Johnston
Description	s tutorial aims to introduce the Stork data scheduler. The concept behind data placement scheduling and benefits in organizing data transfer activities with Stork will be explained. The rest of the tutorial will cover hands-on experience and some use-case scenarios.
Prerequisites	Overview of Stork Data Placement Scheudler System Architecture Data Placement Concept Data transfer jobs Computational jobs Stork Components stork_server tools stork_client tools Integration into Grid middle-ware Condor Dagman Hands-on Experience Installation Sample job submission Options Recursive copy alternate protocol selection error detection, etc. Examples with Gridftp and PetaShare

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Title	Introduction to Cactus Code
Date	Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Time	9:30 am to 11:30 am
Place	338 Johnston Hall
Description	The Cactus computational toolkit is a framework for developing portable, modular applications with focus on high-performance simulation codes. It is designed to allow experts in different fields to develop modules based upon their experience and to use modules developed by experts in other fields with minimal knowledge of the internals or operation of the other modules. The aim of this tutorial is to present an overview of the available possibilities within the Cactus framework. The basic structure will be discussed and explained on simple examples. This tutorial will probably not be sufficient to start with using Cactus right after the tutorial, but it should give enough information for you to decide if and how you could benefit from using Cactus.
Prerequisites	Programming background in either C, C++ or Fortran to follow simple examplesa

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Welcome to HPC: accounts, allocations, Linux and Linux cluster environment
Introduction to Linux and Vi
Introduction to IBM P5 Clusters
Introduction to MPI
MPI part 2
Introduction to OpenMP
OpenMP part 2
Introduction to Debugging and Profiling
Introduction to Compilers and Optimization
Debugging with Totalview
Practical MPI

Title	Introduction to Linux and Vi
Date	Tuesday, September 16
Time	9:00 am until noon
Place	307 Frey
Description	Very basic introduction to both Linux and to the Vi editor.
Prerequisites	None

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Materials for this presentation are available by following the links in the Description row.

Title	Welcome to HPC: accounts, allocations, Linux and Linux cluster environment
Date	September 18
Time	9:30 am until 12:30 pm
Place	307 Frey
Description	An introduction to: accounts, allocations, Linux, Linux cluster environment.
Prerequisites	N/A

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Title	Introduction to the IBM P5 Clusters.
Date	Monday September 22, 2008
Time	9:30 am until 11:30 am
Place	338 Johnston
Description	An introduction to the HPC environment. You will set your account up for the packages you use, environment variables, shells, etc. You will see basic submit scripts for the queues of the HPC machines.
Prerequisites	You MUST have an account on an LSU OR LONI HPC machine. It would be helpful if you have some basic linux experience.

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Title	Introduction to MPI.
Date	Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Time	9:30 am until 11:30 am
Place	338 Johnston
Description	A basic introduction to the concepts of MPI programming.
Prerequisites	You must have programming background in C, C++ or Fortran. All examples will be in C or Fortran. You MUST have an account on a LONI or LSU HPC machine to participate in the hands on exercises.

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Title	MPI part 2
Date	Monday, September 29, 2008
Time	9:30 am until 11:30 am
Place	338 Johnston
Description	The second part of the introduction to the concepts of MPI programming.
Prerequisites	MPI part 1 You must have programming background in C, C++ or Fortran. All examples will be in C or Fortran. You MUST have an account on a LONI or LSU HPC machine to participate in the hands on exercises.

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Title	Introduction to OpenMP
Date	October 1, 2008
Time	9:30 am until 11:30 am
Place	338 Johnston
Description	This training teaches you the basics of OpenMP
Prerequisites	You MUST have an account on the LONI or LSU HPC machines You must be able to program. All examples will be in C or Fortran.

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Title	OpenMP part 2
Date	Wedneday, October 8, 2008
Time	9:30 am until 11:30 am
Place	338 Johnston
Description	This training will cover topics in OpenMP starting from where Introduction to OpenMP left off.
Prerequisites	You must have programming background in C, C++ or Fortran. All examples will be in C or Fortran. You MUST have an account on a LONI or LSU HPC machine to participate in the hands on exercises.

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Title	Introduction to Debugging and Profiling
Date	Wednesday, October 15
Time	9:30 am until 11:30 am
Place	338 Johnston
Description	Finding and fixing bugs in your parallel code. Profiling is used to improve the performance of your code.
Prerequisites	You MUST have an account on LONI or HPC clusters. You MUST have know how to use MPI or OpenMP. You MUST know how to program in C or Fortran as all examples will be in C or Fortran.

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Date	Monday, October 27
Time	9:30 am until 11:30 am
Place	338 Johnston
Description	This training will introduce you to the compilers and optimization on the LSU and LONI Linux Clusters.
Prerequisites	You MUST have an account on LONI or HPC clusters. You MUST have know how to use MPI or OpenMP. You MUST know how to program in C or Fortran as all examples will be in C or Fortran.

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Title	Introduction to Debugging with Totalview
Date	Wednesday, October 29
Time	9:30 am until 11:30 am
Place	338 Johnston
Description	Taking the debugging techniques discussed in Debugging and Profiling and applying them to the debugger Totalview.
Prerequisites	You MUST have an account on LONI or HPC clusters. You MUST have some idea of parallel debugging.

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Title	Practical MPI
Date	Wednesday, November 5
Time	9:30 am until 11:30 am
Place	338 Johnston
Description	TBA
Prerequisites	TBA

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Introduction to Gnuplot
Introduction to Linux and the Vi Editor
Intoduction to the HPC Linux Cluster Environment
Intoduction to OpenMP
Intoduction to MPI

Title	Introduction to GnuPlot
Date	Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Time	9:30 am until 11:30 am
Place	338 Johnston Hall
Description	This course is an introduction to to the GnuPlot plotting utility. We will cover the basics of using GnuPlot. We will not cover anything to do with Xwindows systems or clients. This will need to be installed and working before you attend the training.
Prerequisites	You must have an account on a LONI or HCP machine. All hands on exercises will require that you log on to the machine to create plots and graphs. You must also have an X windows system installed on your laptop such as Cygwin or Xming. Links to Xming and Cygwin: Xming Cygwin For Xwindows settings please see: X11 Forwarding . Please be aware that you will also need a ssh client to use with your X11 documents. We suggest Putty. There is a Xming download with Putty rolled in.

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Title	Introduction to Linux and Vi
Date	June 25, 2008
Time	8:30 am until noon
Place	338 Johnston
Description	Very basic introduction to both Linux and to the Vi editor.
Prerequisites	None

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Title	Introduction to the HPC Environment
Date	July 2, 2008
Time	9:30 am until 11:30 am
Place	307 Frey
Description	An introduction to the HPC environment. You will set your account up for the packages you use, environment variables, shells, etc. You will see basic submit scripts for the queues of the HPC machines.
Prerequisites	You MUST have an account on an LSU OR LONI HPC machine. It would be helpful if you have some basic Linux experience.

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Title	Introduction to OpenMP
Date	July 14, 2008
Time	9:30 am until 11:30 am
Place	338 Johnston
Description	This training teaches you the basics of OpenMP
Prerequisites	You MUST have an account on the LONI or LSU HPC machines You must be able to program. All examples will be in C or Fortran.

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Title	Introduction to MPI
Date	Monday, July 30, 2008
Time	9:30 am until 11:30 am
Place	307 Frey
Description	A basic introduction to the concepts of MPI programming.
Prerequisites	You must have programming background in C, C++ or Fortran. All examples will be in C or Fortran.

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Spring 2008

Introduction to Linux
Introduction to Vi
Introduction to your P5 Account Environment
Linux part 2
Setting up your Linux Account Environment (HPC Linux Clusters)
Introduction to MPI
Introduction to OpenMP
Linux Clusters: Compilers and Optimization
Intermediate MPI
IBM P5: Compilers and Optimization
Tuning MPI performance on Pelican
Introduction to Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Programming
Introduction to Haskell

Introduction to Linux

Monday, January 28, 2008 in Johnston 338 from 9:00 to 12:00 pm.

Prereqs:
Familiarity with computer operating systems.

This tutorial will start with the basic concepts of Unix like operating systems and get into the commands needed to move around in the operating system.

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Introduction to Vi

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 in Johnston 338 from 9:30 am to 11:30 am.

Prereqs
Familiarity with text editors and Unix/Linux operating systems.

This tutorial will give you basic hands on experience with the Vi text editor found on most Unix/Linux installations.

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Introduction to LSU and LONI IBM P5 Clusters

Wednesday, February 6, 2008 in 307 Frey from 9:30 am to 11:30 am.

This training covers configuring your AIX environment on one of the LSU or LONI clusters so that you can do your research. You will set paths to packages, compilers, set up your shell, etc.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI IBM P5s to participate in this class.
Basic AIX/Unix/Linux commands and an understanding of the Linux file system.

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Linux part 2

Monday, February 11, 2008 in 338 Johnston from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm.

This training picks up where the "Introduction to Linux" training leaves off. We cover:

paths
wildcards for use with Linux commands
creeating files
vi
man pages
introduction to grep and awk
basic shell scripts

Pre-reqs:
Familiarity with basic Unix type commands.

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Introduction to LSU & LONI Linux Cluster Environment

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 in 307 Frey from 9:30 am to 11:30 am. This training covers configuring your Linux environment on one of the LSU or LONI clusters so that you can do your research. You will set paths to packages, compilers, set up your shell, etc.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI clusters to participate in this course.
Basic Linux commands and an understanding of the Linux file system.

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Introduction to MPI

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 in 307 Frey from 9:30 am to 11:30 am.

This training will cover the basics of MPI.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI Linux clusters to participate in this course.
Understand programming in C, Fortran or C++. Examples will be in C or Fortran.

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Introduction to OpenMP

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 in 307 Frey from 9:30 am to 11:30 am.

This training will cover the basics of OpenMP.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI P5s to participate in this course.
Understand programming in C, Fortran or C++. Examples will be in C or Fortran.

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OpenMP part 2

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 in 338 Johnston from 9:30 am to 11:30 am.

This training will cover topics in OpenMP starting from where Introduction to OpenMP left off.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI P5s to participate in this course.
Understand programming in C, Fortran or C++. Examples will be in C or Fortran.

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Introduction to Linux Clusters Compilers and Optimization

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 in 338 Johnston Hall from 9:30 am to 11:30 am.

This training will introduce you to the compilers and optimization on the LSU and LONI Linux Clusters. Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI P5s to participate in this course.
Understand programming in C, Fortran or C++. Examples will be in C or Fortran.

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Intermediate MPI

Wednesday, April 2, 2008, in 338 Johnston Hall from 9:30 am to 11:30 am.

This course follows the Introduction to MPI and aims to help those who already know something about MPI basics but having trouble to write a MPI code to get real jobs done. In this course you will be exposed to a couple of new concepts but the main focus is on how to use MPI to solve practical problems.

Topics:

Groups and communications
Derived datatypes
How to solve practical problems (How to parallelize do loops, matrix transpose, LU factorization etc.)
How to tweak your MPI-related environment variables
Deal with common errors
how to use MPI to parallelize user applications

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI clusters to participate in this course.
Attended the training "Introduction to MPI" or have previous MPI experience.
Understand programming in C, Fortran or C++. Examples will be in C or Fortran..

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Tuning MPI Performance on Pelican

Wednesday, April 16, 2008, in 338 Johnston Hall from 9:30 am to 11:30 am.

This training will introduce you to techniques to tune your code's performance on LSU's Pelican IBM P5 cluster.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on the LSU Pelican cluster to participate in this course.

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IBM P5 Compilers and Optimization

Wednesday, April 9, 2008, in 338 Johnston Hall from 9:30 am to 11:30 am.

This training introduces you to the compilers and optimizations techniques on the LONI and LSU IBM P5s.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI clusters to participate in this course.

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Introduction to Hybrid MPI/OpenMP

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 in 338 Johnston Hall from 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm.

This training will introduce you to the concepts of hybridizing your code using MPI and OpenMP.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI IBM P5 clusters to participate in this course.
You MUST have experience coding in both MPI and OpenMP.

OR

You MUST have attended both intermediate MPI and OpenMP.

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Getting started with Haskell and Shared Transactional Memory Programming

April 2, 2008 in 307 Frey from 1:30 to 3:30

Description: This course will explore some of the basics of programming in Haskell, as well as the special topic of parallel thread programming using shared transactional memory.

Prerequisites: You should already know how to program in C, Java, Python, or some other imperative language.

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Fall 2007

Introduction to Linux
Linux part 2
Setting up your Linux Account Environment (HPC Linux Clusters)
Introduction to your P5 Account Environment
Introduction to MPI
Introduction to OpenMP
Introduction to Linux
Configuring your LInux Cluster Account
Linux part 2
Introduction to LaTeX
Configuring your P5 Account
Introduction to Vi
Introduction to MPI
Configuring you Linux Cluster Account Environment

Introduction to Linux

Tuesday, September 04, 2007 in Frey 307 from 10:30 to 12:30.

Prereqs:
Familiarity with computer operating systems.

This tutorial will start with the basic concepts of Unix like operating systems and get into the commands needed to move around in the operating system.

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Linux part 2

Monday, September 10, 2007 in Frey 307 from 10:30 to 12:30.

This training picks up where the "Introduction to Linux" training leaves off. We cover:

paths
wildcards for use with Linux commands
creeating files
vi
man pages
introduction to grep and awk

Pre-reqs:
Familiarity with basic Unix type commands.

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Setting up your Linux Account Environment (HPC Linux Clusters)

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 in Frey 307 from 10:00 to 12:00.

This training covers configuring your Linux environment on one of the LSU or LONI clusters so that you can do your research. You will set paths to packages, compilers, set up your shell, etc.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI clusters to participate in this course.
Basic Linux commands and an understanding of the Linux file system.

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Introduction to your P5 Account Environment

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 in Frey 307 from 10:30 to 12:30.

This training covers configuring your AIX environment on one of the LSU or LONI clusters so that you can do your research. You will set paths to packages, compilers, set up your shell, etc.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI IBM P5s to participate in this class.
Basic AIX/Unix/Linux commands and an understanding of the Linux file system.

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Introduction to MPI

Intro to MPI presentation
Intro to MPI lab tarball
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 in 307 Frey from 9:30 to 11:30.

This training will cover how to MPI-enable your code.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI Linux clusters to participate in this course.
Understand programming in C, Fortran or C++. Examples will be in C or Fortran..

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Introduction to OpenMP

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 in 307 Frey from 10:30 to 12:00.

Intro to OpenMP presentation
Intro to OpenMP lab tarball

This training will cover how to OpenMP-enable your code.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI P5s to participate in this course.
Understand programming in C, Fortran or C++. Examples will be in C or Fortran..

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Introduction to Linux

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 in Frey 101 from 1:30 to 3:30.

This tutorial will start with the basic concepts of Unix like operating systems and get into the commands needed to move around in the operating system.

Prereqs:
Familiarity with computer operating systems.

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Configuring Your Linux Account (HPC Linux Clusters)

Monday, October 8, 2007 in Frey 307 from 1:00 to 3:00.

This training covers configuring your Linux environment on one of the LSU or LONI Intel clusters so that you can do your research. You will set paths to packages, compilers, set up your shell, etc.

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Linux part 2

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 in Frey 101 from 9:30 to 11:30.

This training picks up where the "Introduction to Linux" training leaves off. We cover:

paths
wildcards for use with Linux commands
creeating files
vi
man pages
introduction to grep and awk

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Introduction to LaTeX

Monday, October 15, 2007 in Frey 307 from 1:30 to 3:30.
This is an introductory training using the LaTeX editor to create a journal article. Topics covered include:

Table of Contents
Sections
inserting images
creating tables
basic text formatting: bold, italics, etc.
index
lIst of Figures
list of tables

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Configuring your P5 Account Environment

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 in Frey 307 from 9:30 to 11:30.

This training covers configuring your AIX environment on one of the LSU or LONI clusters so that you can do your research. You will set paths to packages, compilers, set up your shell, etc.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI IBM P5s to participate in this class.
Basic AIX/Unix/Linux commands and an understanding of the Linux file system.

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Introduction to Vi

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 in 307 Frey from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm.
This training will cover some Linux/*nix commands and then proceed to the Vi editor that can be found on almost any *nix type system.

This training will enhance a beginner's experience in creating files on a Linux/AIX system.

Prereqs:

An account on either the LSU or LONI HPC systems.

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Introduction to MPI

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 in 307 Frey from 10:00 to 12:00.

This training will cover how to MPI-enable your code.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI Linux clusters to participate in this course.
Understand programming in C, Fortran or C++. Examples will be in C or Fortran.

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Introduction to your Linux Account Environment (HPC Linux Clusters)

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 in Frey 307 from 1:30 to 3:30.

This training covers configuring your Linux environment on one of the LSU or LONI clusters so that you can do your research. You will set paths to packages, compilers, set up your shell, etc.

Prereqs:

You MUST have an account on one of the LSU or LONI clusters to participate in this course.
Basic Linux commands and an understanding of the Linux file system.

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Spring 2007

April 2007

Introduction to the Computational Chemistry Grid and GridChem

Wednesday, April 11 from 9:00 until 11:00 am, in Frey 307
This workshop is for Chemistry professors and researchers who need additional allocations for your research or classwork. GridChem is a Java based desk top client that will interface with parallel applications for chemistry such as Gaussion03, NWChem, Amber, etc. The CCG is a consortium of universities and supercomputing centers that are resources for the allocations.

Introduction to HPC AIX Cluster Environment - Pelican & LONI P5s

Tuesday, April 17, from 10:00 to noon in 338 Johnston and on the Access Grid.
You will be introduced to the basics of managing your system environment on HPC systems at LSU and LONI, which include Pelican and LONI clusters. Hands-on lab will involve you manipulating your environment.

Introduction to MPI

Introduction to MPI @ Johnston 338 Training Room and on the Access Grid on Thursday, Apr 19, 2007 from 12:30 to 2:30 pm.
This training is for people that have never written a parallel program with MPI. It will cover the basics of programming with MPI.You must be able to program in C to learn anything from this training.

Introduction to OpenMP: LSU's Pelican & the LONI IBM P5 clusters

Monday, April 24 in Frey 307 from 10:30 to 12:30 and on the Access Grid.

You will be introduced to the OpenMP shared memory environment for parallel programming. Hands-on lab includes viewing simple codes written for serial execution and their OpenMP enable counter parts.

March 2007

Intermediate Linux

Wednesday, March 7 from noon until 2:00 in 307 Frey and on the Access Grid.
This course picks up where the previous training left off and adds to your knowledge of *nix like languages. We will cover:

Advanced MPI

Tuesday, March 13 from 9:00 until 11:00 in Johnston 338 and on the access grid.

February 2007

Introduction to Linux/Unix

Wednesday, Feb. 7 from 10:00 to 12:00 in 307 Frey Computing Services Center

This training is for people that have never used Linux before. It will cover the basic commands to understand the file system structure, move around, create directories, and a few utility commands to help you find files. These commands will work on most Linux/Unix operating systems as they aren't very complex.

Introduction to Versioning Systems

Tuesday, February 13 from 10:00 to 11:30 in 101 Frey.

This training is very basic for people that haven't ever used either CVS or Subversion before. We will cover the basic differences between the two and then complete a hands on exercise that will allow you to import your work to a server or checkout a module from a server.

Introduction to Parallel Programming w/MPI

Wednesday, February 28 from 1:00 to 3:00 in 338 Johnston.

This training is for people that have never written a parallel program with MPI. It will cover the basics of programming with MPI. You must be able to program in C to learn anything from this training.

Table of Contents

Spring 2009

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Spring 2008

Introduction to Vi

Tuning MPI Performance on Pelican

IBM P5 Compilers and Optimization

Introduction to Hybrid MPI/OpenMP

OR

Getting started with Haskell and Shared Transactional Memory Programming

Fall 2007

Introduction to Linux

Linux part 2

Introduction to MPI

Introduction to OpenMP

Introduction to Linux

Configuring Your Linux Account (HPC Linux Clusters)

Linux part 2

Introduction to LaTeX

Configuring your P5 Account Environment

Introduction to Vi

Introduction to MPI

Introduction to your Linux Account Environment (HPC Linux Clusters)

Spring 2007

April 2007

Introduction to the Computational Chemistry Grid and GridChem

Introduction to HPC AIX Cluster Environment - Pelican & LONI P5s

Introduction to MPI

Introduction to OpenMP: LSU's Pelican & the LONI IBM P5 clusters

March 2007

Intermediate Linux

Advanced MPI

February 2007

Introduction to Linux/Unix

Introduction to Versioning Systems

Introduction to Parallel Programming w/MPI