Introduction to MPI / So.Cal AAP Workshop
Target Audience
Users from UCSD (including SIO and SOM), UCLA, UCI, UCSB and UCR. No prior parallel computing experience required.
Registration Information
General Description
San Diego (November 5, 2007) - The San Diego Supercomputer Center
Supercomputers are used by computational scientists from a variety of disciplines such as physical sciences, engineering, medical sciences, social sciences for large scale simulations and data analysis. Current supercomputers contain few thousand to few hundreds of thousands processors, fast interconnect, large parallel filesystem, large amount of memory and disks.
Message Passing Interface (MPI), a standard library for distributed memory machines, is widely used to write parallel programs suitable for these supercomputers. This class will cover introductory topics of parallel computing, parallel programming and specifically introductory MPI programming. Students will have access to a supercomputer and learn how to write simple parallel programs and run them on the supercomputer. Students will also learn about the user environment needed to use a supercomputer.
Overall, this class will give attendees the basic understanding of parallel programming and supercomputer environment such that they can start using a supercomputer for their class project or research. A more advanced parallel computing class will be offered at a later quarter.
Location
Room 279, SDSC
