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LONI High Performance Computing Workshop--Louisiana Tech University, Ruston

HPC @ LSU will have a LONI High Performance Computing Workshop to be held in Louisiana Tech University at Ruston, on October 11 & 12 2007. The workshop will be held in room 107 of Biomedical Engineering Building at Hergot Ave on LaTech campus. A google map of this locatin can be found HERE.

The workshop will be an introductory workshop covering introduction to LONI HPC environment of IBM Power5 and Dell Linux machines at LONI, basic AIX/Linux operating system commands, introduction to Parallel Computing, introduction to MPI and advanced MPI, introduction to programming with OpenMP, introduction to Grid Computing, LONI Portal, optimization, debugging and profling of parallel code.

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

LONI Grid Certificate: This workshop will introduce you to Grid Computing including hands-on exercises on LONI supercomputers, therefore a LONI Grid Certificate is needed for each attendee. If you don't have a LONI Grid Certificate, please request one following this instruction:

Request a LONI user certificate, issue the following command on the shell from any of the LONI P5 Machines (Bluedawg, Ducky, Zeke)

$ export GLOBUS_LOCATION=/usr/local/globus/globus-4.0.4

$ export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/globus/globus-4.0.4/bin

$ grid-cert-request

Mail the usercert_request.pem file to ca@loni.org

$ cat $HOME/.globus/usercert_request.pem | mail ca@loni.org

On receiving the signed certificate from LONI CA Admin, copy into your .globus location as follows:
```
$ cp youname_signed.crt $HOME/.globus/usercert.pem
```

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 Chris Womack at cwomack@latech.edu so that he can try his best to provide one for you.

The workshop is full. You are welcome to email Kathy Traxler to be put on a waiting list in case there are any cancellations. Otherwise check back to this training page for future training opportunities.

This training will be a two day workshop introducing the user to High Performance Computing. Louisiana Tech University will provide lunch and refreshments for both day to all participants. Thanks Louisiana Tech University for the hospitality! The tentative workshop schedule is as follow:

LONI HPC workshop at LaTech in October 2007 -- Presentations

October 11
- 8:00 - 8:30 Registration
- 8:30 - 9:20 Overview of HPC @ LSU and LONI -- Isaac Traxler
- 9:20 - 10:00 Introduction to Parallel Computing -- Kathy Traxler
- 10:00 - 10:10 Break
- 10:10 - 10:40 Accounts and Allocations -- Dr. Steve Brandt
- 10:40 - 11:10 Lab -- Dr. Steve Brandt
- 11:10 - 11:40 Introduction to AIX/Linux -- Kathy Traxler
- 11:40 - 12:00 Lab --Kathy Traxler
- 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
- 1:00 - 1:40 LONI IBM P5 Programming Environment -- Dr. Honggao Liu
- 1:40 - 2:00 Lab -- Dr. Honggao Liu
- 2:00 - 2:40 LONI Dell Linux Programming Environment -- Dr. Honggao Liu
- 2:40 - 3:00 Lab -- Dr. Honggao Liu
- 3:00 - 3:10 Break
- 3:10 - 3:50 Introduction to MPI -- Dr. Le Yan
- 3:50 - 4:20 LAB -- Dr. Le Yan
- 4:20 - 5:00 Introduction to MPI (part 2) -- Dr. Le Yan
October 12
- 8:30 - 9:10 Compilers and Optimizations on LONI IBM Systems -- Dr. Le Yan
- 9:10 - 9:40 Lab -- Dr. Le Yan
- 9:40 - 10:20 Compilers and Optimizations on LONI Dell Systems -- Dr. Shangli Ou
- 10:20 - 10:30 Break
- 10:30 - 11:30 Introduction to Grid Computing and LONI Portal-- Dr. Shangli Ou
- 11:30 - 12:00 Lab -- Dr. Shangli Ou
- 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
- 1:00 - 1:40 Introduction to programming with OpenMP -- Brett Estrade
- 1:40 - 2:10 Lab -- Brett Estrade
- 2:10 - 2:20 Break
- 2:20 - 3:00 Profiling and Debugging -- Brett Estrade
- 3:00 - 3:30 Lab -- Brett Estrade
- 3:30 - 4:00 Workshop survey and wrap up

Workshop Lab Exercises

Workshop Survey: This is a survey that will be used to improve any future HPC training workshops. Please take the time to evaluate this Louisiana Tech HPC workshop HERE. We appreciate your time and effort to help us improve.