High Performance Computing Seminar

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High Performance Computing Seminar:
Computer Hardware and Software

"Looking over the shoulders of experts ..."

Fall, 1998
Fridays, 1:25 - 2:15
AERSP 597E, Math 597J, and CSE 597E
1 Credit

Prof. L. Long

http://www.personal.psu.edu/lnl/ihpca/fall597e.html

Real Audio Recordings of Full Lectures Now Available Below

Some Useful Books

These are optional textbooks :

Table of Contents

No. TOPIC
-- Course Conduct
1 Introduction
2 Unix & Computer Lab Info
3 Code Development
-- Scientific Publishing
4 Graphics Packages # 1: Public Domain Software
5 Graphics Packages # 2: Visualization Toolkit (VTK)
-- Graphics Packages # 2: GraficV3
6 Graphics Packages # 3: Tecplot
7 Software Libraries
8 Mathematica & Matlab
9 Using the IBM SP2
10 Fortran 90 (F-90)
11 High Performance Fortran (HPF) & F-95 & OpenMP
13 Message Passing Interface (MPI)
--- NO CLASS
14 Workstation & PC Clusters
15 Networking and Mass Storage

Detailed Web Pages

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1 Introduction



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3 Code Development: .
-- Scientific Publishing :



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4 Graphics Packages # 1: Public Domain Software
-- Graphics Packages # 2: graficV3



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6 Graphics Packages # 3: Tecplot



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7 Software Libraries



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8 Introduction

Mathematica

Matlab



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9 Using the IBM SP2
10 Fortran 90 (F-90)



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11 High Performance Fortran (HPF) & F-95
Fortran at PSU and HPF at PGI



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13 Message Passing Interface (MPI)
Virtual Workshop Message Passing Interface (MPI) #2



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14 Workstation and PC Clusters
15 High Speed Networking (FDDI, ATM, HiPPI) and
Mass Storage Technology (ADSM, Tape Robots, ...)

Course Conduct

This seminar series will meet one day per week. The goal here is to introduce students (and faculty) to some key features of high performance computing, and to illustrate some important software and compilers. This will be a very applications-oriented course, showing you how to use the latest hardware and software. The course will be especially useful for students new to Penn State or new to High Performance Computing.

Each of these seminars will simply serve to introduce you to the topic, in a 50 minute presentation, it is not possible to go into great depth. The webpages will contain more information and links to additional material.

The sub-title for the course "Looking over the Shoulders of Experts," is a recognition that often one can learn some aspects of computing most effectively by simply observing an expert at work. Apprenticeships are often more effective than studying alone. Some of the topics discussed in this course are hard to even find in a library, they are almost past around like folklore.

Students will be expected to attend all lectures. There will be no homework. The grades in the seminar course will be based upon five reports you must submit sometime before the last day of classes. You can pick which five lectures you want to write the reports on. You will also be expected to attend every lecture.

These five reports will each consist of the following two parts:

Submit these reports in writing to me (Room 233M Hammond Building)

Let me know if you have questions.

The course will use room 215 Hammond Building which has a computer in the classroom and a Hi-Res projector. All the course material will be available on the WWW at http://www.personal.psu.edu/lnl/ihpca/fall597e.html.

We will also be recording the lectures, and putting audio clips on the web (and maybe some video clips).

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