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Supercomputing in Plain English:
A High Performance Computing Workshop Series

Spring 2009 Workshops

NOTE: All information for Spring 2009 is TENTATIVE until Tue Feb 3 2009, and is subject to change without notice.

Timeslot: Tuesdays 2:30pm Central Time
4:30pm Atlantic, 3:30pm Eastern, 2:30pm Central, 1:30pm Mountain, 12:30pm Pacific
Although the workshops theoretically run 1 hour each, you should budget 1:15 in case we run long.
 
Local participation at OU: All sessions are held in the first floor boardroom of the Stephenson Research & Technology Center.
 
Remote participation: We will provide details on how to connect via various conferencing technologies.
 
The TENTATIVE list of conferencing technologies includes:

Details about how to connect are provided in the slides.
 
NOTE: We ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE that your conferencing connection will fail at least occasionally. Please be sure to download the slides before each session, and please be prepared to switch to a different technology during the session if necessary.

Date

Access
Grid
Venue

Topic

Slides & Videos

Tue
Feb 3

Helium

Overview: What the Heck Is Supercomputing?

PowerPoint   PDF

Exercise #1 (Intro)
QuickTime

Tue
Feb 10

Optiverse

The Tyranny of the Storage Hierarchy

PowerPoint   PDF

Exercise #2 (Tiling)
QuickTime

Tue
Feb 17

Monte Carlo

Instruction Level Parallelism

PowerPoint   PDF

Exercise #3 (Arithmetic Operations)
QuickTime

Tue
Feb 24

Helium

Stupid Compiler Tricks

PowerPoint   PDF

Exercise coming soon
QuickTime

Tue
March 3

Titan

Shared Memory Multithreading

PowerPoint   PDF

Exercise coming soon
QuickTime

Tue
March 10

 

NO WORKSHOP
(Henry will be on business travel.)

Tue
March 17

 

NO WORKSHOP
(OU Spring Break)

Tue
March 24

Axon

Distributed Multiprocessing

PowerPoint   PDF

Exercise coming soon
QuickTime

Tue
March 31

Cactus

NEW! Applications and Types of Parallelism

PowerPoint   PDF

Exercise coming soon
QuickTime

Tue
Apr 14

Cactus

Multicore Madness

PowerPoint   PDF

Exercise coming soon
QuickTime

Tue
Apr 21

Verlet

High Throughput Computing

PowerPoint   PDF

Exercise coming soon
QuickTime

Tue
Apr 28

Cactus

NEW! GPGPU: Number Crunching in Your Graphics Card

PowerPoint   PDF

Exercise coming soon
QuickTime

Tue
May 5

Titan

Grab Bag: Scientific Libraries, I/O, Visualization

PowerPoint   PDF

Exercise coming soon
QuickTime  

Fall 2007 Workshops

Timeslot: Wednesdays 3:00pm Central Time
(4:00pm Eastern, 2:00pm Mountain, 1:00pm Pacific)
Although the workshops theoretically run 1 hour each, you should budget 1:15 in case we run long.
Local participation at OU: All sessions are held in the first floor boardroom of the Stephenson Research & Technology Center.

Date

Topic

Slides & Videos

Wed
Aug 29

Overview: What the Heck Is Supercomputing?

PowerPoint   PDF

WMV   QuickTime   iLinc *

Wed
Sep 5

The Tyranny of the Storage Hierarchy

PowerPoint   PDF

WMV   QuickTime   iLinc *

Wed
Sep 12

Instruction Level Parallelism

PowerPoint   PDF

QuickTime   iLinc *

Wed
Sep 19

Stupid Compiler Tricks

PowerPoint   PDF

QuickTime   iLinc *

Wed
Sep 26

Shared Memory Multithreading

PowerPoint   PDF

QuickTime

Wed
Oct 3

 NO WORKSHOP
Join us at OU for the Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2007, which is FREE and we'll FEED YOU!

Wed
Oct 10

Distributed Parallelism

PowerPoint   PDF

QuickTime

Wed
Oct 17

Multicore Madness

PowerPoint   PDF

QuickTime

Wed
Oct 24

High Throughput Computing

PowerPoint   PDF

QuickTime

Wed
Oct 31

 NO WORKSHOP
(Henry will be on business travel.)

Wed
Nov 7

Grab Bag: Scientific Libraries, I/O, Visualization

PowerPoint   PDF

QuickTime


* iLinc files require the iLinc viewer from iLinc.

Fall 2004 Workshops

Date

Topic

Slides & Videos

Fri
Sep 3

Overview: What the Heck Is Supercomputing?

PowerPoint   PDF
Streaming A/V (summer 2004)
Streaming A/V (fall 2004)

Fri
Sep 17

The Tyranny of the Storage Hierarchy

PowerPoint   PDF
Streaming A/V

Fri
Oct 1

Instruction-Level Parallelism

PowerPoint   PDF
Streaming A/V

Fri
Oct 15

Stupid Compiler Tricks

PowerPoint   PDF
Streaming A/V

Fri
Oct 29

Shared Memory Multithreading

PowerPoint   PDF
Streaming A/V

Fri
Nov 19

Distributed Multiprocessing

PowerPoint   PDF
Streaming A/V

Fri
Dec 3

Grab Bag: Math Libraries, I/O and Visualization

PowerPoint   PDF
Streaming A/V

Review Questions

Answers to Review Questions

This work was partially supported under the following National Science Foundation grants:
  • "Integration of High Performance Computing in Nanotechnology"
    $399,998
    08/15/02 - 08/14/05, no cost extension to 07/31/06
    EIA-0203481
  • "MRI: Acquisition of an Itanium Cluster for Grid Computing"
    $340,000
    09/01/03 - 08/31/06
    EIA-0320895
  • "CI-TEAM Demonstration: Cyberinfrastructure Education for Bioinformatics and Beyond"
    $249,974
    12/01/06 - 11/30/08
    OCI-0636427
Here are the slides for Fall 2002.
Here are the slides for Fall 2001.

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