LONI High Performance Computing Workshop

HPC @ LSU will have a LONI High Performance Computing Workshop to be held at Southern University (Southern), on March 3 & 4, 2009. The workshop will be held in the Pinchback Hall Hi-Tech Room 123.

Thanks

This training will be a two day workshop introducing the user to High Performance Computing.

Southern University (Southern) will provide lunch and refreshments to all participants. Thanks Southern for the hospitality!

Schedule

  • March 3
    Time Topic
    8:00 - 8:30Registration
    8:30 - 9:10Overview of LONI and the Teragrid by Dr. Le Yan
    9:10 - 10:10Introduction to Linux (part 1) Kathy Traxler
    10:10 - 10:20Break
    10:20 - 11:50Intro to Linux and Vi (part 2) by Kathy Traxler
    11:50 - 12:50Lunch
    12:50 - 1:10Reduced Basis Simulation by Dr. Rachel Finley
    1:10 - 1:30Accounts and Allocations by Dr. Alan Scheinine
    1:30 - 3:30Programming environment on LONI Dell LInux Clusters by Dr. Le Yan
    3:30 - 3:40Break
    3:40 - 5:00Introduction to Globus by Sirish Tummala

  • March 4
    Time Topic
    8:00 - 10:00
    • Advanced Cluster Environment by Brett Estrade
    • Advanced Environment Handout
    10:00 - 10:10Break
    10:10 - 12:00
    • Introduction to Parallel Programming Concepts by Dr. Alan Scheinine
    • Introduction to Parallel Programming Concepts Handout
    12:00 - 1:00Lunch
    1:00 - 1:50Research at LONI:

    • Monte carlo Simulation of the Cubic Kilometer IceCube Detector at the South Pole by Dr. Fazely
    • Nano-material, surface and interface property simulations by abinitio plane wave DFT method by Dr. Yang

    1:50 - 2:50Visualization in scientific computing by Dr. Jinghua Ge
    2:50 - 3:00Break
    3:00 - 5:00Introduction to MPI by Adam Jundt