[Todos] Curso High Performance Computing en la ECI (Depto de Computación-Exactas )

[Irene Loiseau]

En el marco de la 22 Escuela de Ciencias Informáticas que se llevará a
cabo en el Depto. de Computaci'on del 28 de julio al 2 de agosto se
dictará el curso "Practical high performance computing for the modern age"
cuyos detalles van abajo.
Para informaci'on sobre inscripción, etc, ver
http://www.dc.uba.ar/eci
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Practical high performance computing for the modern age

Horario: 28 de julio al 2 de agosto(9 a 12 hs): teórica.
(14 a 17 hs): práctica de laboratorio.
Duración: 30 horas.
Idioma: Inglés.
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Requisitos:Conocimientos básicos de programación y de arquitecturas de
computadoras.

Programa: As the first decade of the 21st Century draws to a close, the
domain of supercomputing is achieving the milestone of reaching 1
Petaflops (a million billion floating point operations per second)
performance driven by the exciting requirements of advanced applications
in science, medicine, and technology as well as by the continued
exponential growth in semiconductor technology reflected by Moore’s Law.
But the effective exploitation of these unprecedented technologies is only
accomplished through a deep understanding of their structure, operational
properties, and semantics. This one-week course, Practical High
Performance Computing for the Modern Age, is being presented to provide
the attendee with a first detailed understanding of supercomputing systems
and their application to real world problems. Based on the highly
successful graduate level introductory course, High Performance Computing:
Models, Methods, and Means, presented at Louisiana State University and
broadcast in high definition to other universities in the US and Europe,
this short course will give a comprehensive coverage of the essential
elements of supercomputing so that by its conclusion the participant will
be prepared to make informed decisions about his/her follow on pursuits
within the field. This course is suitable for the non-expert with minimum
prerequisites. Knowledge of basic programming language (e.g., C or
Fortran) usage and user level exposure to a modern operating system (e.g.,
Linux, Windows) is all that is required. This course will be of particular
value to those professionals seeking information in preparation for
computational science, HPC systems research, Linux cluster administration,
and hardware/software engineering. The five days of lectures will cover:

Monday: Modern HPC Architecture and Systems
Tuesday: SMP Parallel Programming with OpenMP
Wednesday: MPP/Cluster Distributed Programming with MPI
Thursday: Towards the Petaflops Era with Multicore and Accelerators
Friday: Advanced Research Directions in HPC towards Exascale Computing
With the availability of an additional Teaching Assistant, hands-on
recitations will be provided to give the participant direct experience
with the fundamental tools and methods used in high performance computing
applications.
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Profesor: Thomas Sterling, Louisiana State University, USA.

Dr. Thomas Sterling holds a joint appointment as a Principal Scientist at
the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and as a Faculty Associate at Caltech's
Center for Advanced Computing Research. Since receiving his Ph.D from MIT
as a Hertz Fellow in 1984, Dr. Sterling has pursued a career of applied
research in parallel computer architecture and high performance computing
at Harris Corp, the IDA Supercomputing Research Center, and the NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center and University of Maryland, joining Caltech
and JPL in 1996. Thomas Sterling is widely recognized for his
contributions to commodity cluster computing through the Beowulf Project
which he started in 1994 and is the co-author of two books on clusters
including "How to Build a Beowulf" and "Beowulf Cluster Computing". Dr.
Sterling was the PI of the HTMT Project funded by a number of agencies to
conduct the first multidisciplinary multi-institutional in-depth study of
future Petaflops scale general purpose computers and is a co-author of a
book on "Enabling Technologies for Petaflops Computing." Currently he is
the PI of several projects that together are developing the MIND
architecture, an advanced PIM computing component sponsored by NASA,
Sandia National Laboratory, and DARPA.

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Irene Loiseau
Departamento de Computación
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Pabellón I- Ciudad Universitaria
1428 Buenos Aires - ARGENTINA
TE/FAX: 54 11 4576 3359
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