Supercomputing in Plain English (SiPE), Spring 2018

Available live in person and live via videoconferencing

Tuesdays starting Jan 23 2018 (through Tue May 1 2018) 12:30pmCT

* Live in person on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus

* Live via videoconferencing worldwide

(Details of both to be announced.)

Registration is open!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaf5ypira79lTs1Nx7JR2YkFevxV7-4zwFCtT0SfHhDBGLUA/formResponse

(You only need to register once for the whole semester, not for every week.)

See previous editions at: http://www.oscer.ou.edu/education/

SiPE is targeted at an audience of not only computer scientists but especially scientists and engineers, including a mixture of undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, staff and professionals.

These workshops focus on fundamental issues of High Performance Computing (HPC) as they relate to Computational and Data-enabled Science & Engineering (CDS&E), including:

* overview of HPC;

* the storage hierarchy;

* instruction-level parallelism;

* high performance compilers;

* shared memory parallelism (e.g., OpenMP);

* distributed parallelism (e.g., MPI);

* HPC application types and parallel paradigms;

* multicore optimization;

* high throughput computing;

* accelerator computing (e.g., GPUs);

* scientific and I/O libraries;

* scientific visualization.

The key philosophy of the SiPE workshops is that HPC-based software should be maintainable, extensible and, most especially, portable across platforms, and should be sufficiently flexible that it can adapt to, and adopt, emerging HPC paradigms.

Prerequisite:

1 semester of programming experience and/or coursework in any of Fortan, C, C++ or Java, recently