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PHYS F693 F01 - Core Skills for Computational Science

Fall 2007

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 thorough case study by a guest speaker and/or a hands-on lab session will be given in support of each.

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 are open for current and prospective users.

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

9/6 Introduction to ARSC

9/11-9/18 Introduction to Unix

9/25-9/27 Introduction to Fortran

10/2-10/4 Introduction to IBM Clusters at ARSC

10/11 Introduction to Midnight SUN Cluster (WRRB 010)

10/16-10/18 Performance Programming

10/30-11/8 Parallel Shared Memory Programming using OpenMP

11/15-12/4 Parallel Distributed Memory Programming using MPI

Date(s)	Module
9/6	Introduction to ARSC
9/11-9/18	Introduction to Unix
9/25-9/27	Introduction to Fortran
10/2-10/4	Introduction to IBM Clusters at ARSC
10/11	Introduction to Midnight SUN Cluster (WRRB 010)
10/16-10/18	Performance Programming
10/30-11/8	Parallel Shared Memory Programming using OpenMP
11/15-12/4	Parallel Distributed Memory Programming using MPI

Additional topics covered throughout the semester will include data management at ARSC, the Integrated Data Viewer, importing user data to IDV and Viz5D, basic animation techniques, 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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