Education

Supercomputing in Plain English:
A High Performance Computing Workshop Series

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

Education

Supercomputing in Plain English:
A High Performance Computing Workshop Series

Fall 2007 Workshops

Fall 2004 Workshops

Here are the slides for Fall 2002.
Here are the slides for Fall 2001.

Supercomputing Education Links

Education

Supercomputing in Plain English: A High Performance Computing Workshop Series

Fall 2007 Workshops

Fall 2004 Workshops

Here are the slides for Fall 2002. Here are the slides for Fall 2001.

Supercomputing Education Links

Supercomputing in Plain English:
A High Performance Computing Workshop Series

Here are the slides for Fall 2002.
Here are the slides for Fall 2001.