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PHYS F693 F01 - Core Skills for Computational Science

Fall 2008

3 Credits

Course Description:

This course provides students an introduction to the basic skills required to operate in a modern high performance computing (HPC) environment, including UAF’s Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC). Topics include an introduction to HPC, basic Unix/batch/scripting skills, performance programming, shared and distributed memory parallelism, code validation and debugging, data storage and management, and data visualization. Each of these topics will be presented in lecture form. To provide additional applied knowledge, either a case study by a guest speaker and/or a hands-on lab session will be given in support of each topic.

In the past, components of this class have been regularly offered as individual training sessions by the staff at ARSC. The impetus for creation of the ‘core skills’ class was to provide a more intensive training environment for new student users, while still providing distinct modules for more advanced users to refresh or update skills.

All sessions of this class are open to the public to attend. Please feel free to drop-in on any of the lectures that are of interest to you.

Meeting Time/Location and Schedule of Topics:

Location West Ridge Research Building (WRRB) 009

Time Tuesday/Thursday, 9:15 – 11:15 a.m.

Location	West Ridge Research Building (WRRB) 009
Time	Tuesday/Thursday, 9:15 – 11:15 a.m.

The course is organized into the following modules:

Date(s) Module

9/4 Introduction to ARSC

9/9-9/16 Introduction to Unix

9/18 Introduction to Fortran (WRRB 010)

9/23 Introduction to Midnight Sun Cluster

9/30-10/02 Viz Week 1: Introduction to Integrated Data Viewer

10/7-10/9 Performance Programming

10/14-10/16 Viz Week 2: Importing Data and Animation 101

10/21-10/30 Parallel Shared Memory Programming using OpenMP

11/6-11/20 Parallel Distributed Memory Programming using MPI

12/2 Introduction to Pingo Cray XT5 System

Date(s)	Module
9/4	Introduction to ARSC
9/9-9/16	Introduction to Unix
9/18	Introduction to Fortran (WRRB 010)
9/23	Introduction to Midnight Sun Cluster
9/30-10/02	Viz Week 1: Introduction to Integrated Data Viewer
10/7-10/9	Performance Programming
10/14-10/16	Viz Week 2: Importing Data and Animation 101
10/21-10/30	Parallel Shared Memory Programming using OpenMP
11/6-11/20	Parallel Distributed Memory Programming using MPI
12/2	Introduction to Pingo Cray XT5 System

Additional topics covered throughout the semester will include debugging with Totalview, Subversion version control system, and validation and verification of scientific models.

For more detail, please review the complete syllabus.

Instructors:

This course will be taught by many instructors including ARSC staff, Physics department faculty and guest speakers. The primary points of contact for the class are:

ARSC: Tom Logan, WRRB105-117, 450-8624,
Physics: David Newman, 112 NSF, 474-7858,

For more information visit www.arsc.edu/~cskills

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