Supercomputing in Plain English Workshop Series Begins Jan. 20--Register Today

Supercomputing in Plain English: 
A High Performance Computing Workshop Series

Spring 2015 Workshops

FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE

Tuesdays, January 20 through April 28, 2015 

Live in person: Stephenson Research & Technology Center boardroom 
Live via videoconferencing: Details coming soon

Prerequisite: 1 semester of programming experience and/or coursework in any of Fortan, C, C++ or Java, recently.    

Who should attend:  SiPE is targeted at an audience of not only computer scientists but especially scientists and engineers, including a mixture of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff.

TENTATIVE Topic List

• Overview: What the Heck is Supercomputing?
• The Tyranny of the Storage Hierarchy
• Instruction Level Parallelism
• Stupid Compiler Tricks
• Shared Memory Multithreading (featuring OpenMP)
• Distributed Multiprocessing (featuring MPI)
• Applications and Types of Parallelism
• Multicore Madness
• High Throughput Computing
• Accelerators: Number Crunching in Your Graphics Card
• Grab Bag: Scientific Libraries, I/O Libriaries, Visualization

REGISTER FOR THE SERIES (no cost to participate, but registration is required)
You only need to register once for the whole semester, not for each week.

NOTE: Please plan to participate EVERY TUESDAY Jan. 20 - Apr. 28, 2015, with a few exceptions.

For more information, visit http://www.oscer.ou.edu/education.php.