Core Skills for Computational Science (Physics 693)

ARSC will once again offer a semester length high performance computing (HPC) training class in Fall 2009. This course provides students an introduction to the basic skills required to operate in a modern 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. "Core Skills" is also offered to enrolled UAF students as a 3-credit physics course.

The course is organized into the following modules:

This course will be taught by many instructors including ARSC staff, Physics department faculty and guest speakers. For more detail, please review the complete syllabus.