HPC Faculty Boot Camp Agenda Set

The annual faculty "boot camp" sponsored by the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center July 30 - Aug. 17 is an intensive, hands-on opportunity to gain new, or improve existing high performance computing skills, including how to manage extremely large volumes of data, run simulations for longer durations and visualize data in 3D. All faculty camp sessions are open; members of the university community and public are welcome to attend presentations of interest. A complete agenda for faculty camp 2007 is listed below.

Presented by ARSC consultants and specialists, the camp is structured to provide one-on-one attention to HPC learners. Participants will develop skills to use ARSC resources effectively, as well receive assistance and expertise on independent work or self-guided study for individual projects.

The majority of the talks are scheduled in the ARSC classroom, room 009 of the West Ridge Research Building (WRRB), with the exception of first- and last-day presentations in the ARSC conference room WRRB 010 and Discovery Lab.

For more information, contact 2007 Faculty Camp Coordinator Tom Logan at .

FACULTY CAMP 2007 AGENDA

Week One

Monday, July 30

10:00 - 10:45 Introduction to ARSC (WRRB 010, Tom Logan)

11:00 - 12:00 ARSC Virtual Tour (Discovery Lab, Patrick Webb)

02:00 - 04:30 Attendee Presentation In-Briefing (WRRB 010)

Tuesday, July 31

10:00 - 10:30 Information Assurance Training (Consult)

10:30 - 12:00 Introduction to Unix (Don Bahls)

02:00 - 03:00 Data Management at ARSC (Don Bahls)

03:00 - 04:30 Unix Scripting (Don Bahls)

Wednesday, Aug. 1

09:00 - 12:00 Introduction to IBM Power Systems (Tom Logan)

02:00 - 04:30 Debugging Applications Using Totalview (Ed Kornkven)

Thursday, Aug. 2

09:00 - 12:00 Introduction to Midnight Sun Cluster (Don Bahls)

02:00 - 04:30 PET Performance Tools (Ed Kornkven)

Friday, Aug. 3

09:00 - 10:30 Version Control Systems (Anton Kulchitsky)

10:30 - 12:00 Validation and Verification (Anton Kulchitsky)

02:00 - 04:30 Numerical Methods and Libraries (Anton Kulchitsky)

Week Two

Monday, Aug. 6

10:00 - 12:00 Performance Programming (Tom Logan)

02:00 - 4:00 Data Formats: NetCDF, HDF, GRIB (Lee Higbie)

Tuesday, Aug. 7

10:00 - 12:00 Interactive Data Viewer (Patrick Webb)

02:00 - 04:00 Interactive Data Viewer (Patrick Webb)

Wednesday, Aug. 8

10:00 - 12:00 Parallel Programming with OpenMP (Tom Logan)

02:00 - 04:00 OpenMP Hands-On (Tom Logan)

Thursday, Aug. 9

10:00 - 12:00 Parallel Programming with MPI (Tom Logan)

02:00 - 4:00 MPI Hands-On (Tom Logan)

Friday, Aug. 10 - OPEN DAY

Week Three

Monday, Aug. 13

10:00 - 12:00 User Data Transfer to Viz5D/IDV (Sergei Maurits)

02:00 - 4:00 Animation 101 (Sergei Maurits)

Tuesday, Aug. 14

10:00 - 12:00 Using the Discovery Lab (Discovery Lab, Patrick Webb)

(Open Afternoon)

Wednesday, Aug. 15

(Open Morning)

02:00 - 04:00 ARSC Future Technologies (Greg Newby)

Thursday, Aug. 16 - OPEN DAY

Friday, Aug. 17

(Open Morning)

02:00 - 04:30 Attendee Presentation Out-Briefing (WRRB 010)

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
PO Box 756020, Fairbanks, AK 99775 | voice: 907-450-8600 | email:

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