Supercomputing in Plain English Spring 2015

Assistant Vice President, Information Technology - Research Strategy Advisor;Director, OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER);Associate Professor, College of Engineering;Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Computer Science

Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma (sipe2015@gmail.com)

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IF YOU MISS GETTING A TICKET, YOU CAN STILL ATTEND ONSITE OR VIA VIDEOCONFERENCING.
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For videoconferencing, just join the videoconference. (See the above URL for details.)
Please send e-mail to sipe2015@gmail.com if you want to attend but can't get a ticket.
We'll be happy to have you. 
Note that each session is planned for an hour, but you should budget 1 1/4 hours, in case we run a little long.
NOTE: Tue Jan 20 and Tue Jan 27, the onsite events will be held in Four Partners Place 3065; after that, all sessions will be in the Stephenson Research &amp; Technology Center boardroom unless otherwise announced. 
NOTE: Even though EventBrite lists this as multiple events, please sign up for the FIRST WEEK ONLY.
You DON'T need to sign up for the subsequent weeks; one signup covers the full semester.
"Supercomputing in Plain English" is a workshop series on High Performance Computing (HPC) that is designed especially for people with a solid understanding of their own domain Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline, but modest experience with computing and little or no experience with advanced computing. We use analogies, storytelling and play, rather than doing deep technical dives, to discover the key concepts of advanced computing.
The workshops are presented:
* live in person at the University of Oklahoma Norman campus, in the Stephenson Research &amp; Technology Center first floor boardroom;
* live via videoconferencing (details to be posted soon).
We also hope to be able to provide streaming recordings for those who can't participate live.
The content is cumulative: each session depends on most (or all) of the previous sessions.
Prerequisite: 1 semester of programming experience/training/coursework in one or more of C, C++, Fortran and/or Java, recently.
TENTATIVE TOPIC LIST:
1. Overview: What the Heck is Supercomputing?
2. The Tyranny of the Storage Hierarchy
3. Instruction Level Parallelism
4. Stupid Compiler Tricks
5. Shared Memory Multithreading (OpenMP)
6. Distributed Multiprocessing (MPI)
7. Application and Types of Parallelism
8. Multicore Madness
9. High Throughput Computing
10. Accelerators: Number Crunching in Your Graphics Card
11. Grab Bag: Scientific Libraries, I/O, Visualization
We may add another session, but that's not decided yet.
Please note that we'll have a few weeks where there won't be a session, due to scheduling conflicts. For example, Tue March 17 is during OU's spring break, so no session that day.

OU Stephenson Research & Technology Center 1st floor boardroom

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