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From: Tony Marsh <ma09@gre.ac.uk>
Subject: REMINDER: MPI with Fortran 1-day course
Organization: the University of Greenwich
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 12:25:54 +0100
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An Introduction to MPI with Fortran

24th April 1996

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a recently developed standard for
message-passing library calls that allows a collection of processes to
communicate (for example to solve large problems on a high-performance
parallel machine). It has involved a major collaboration of machine vendors,
universities, industry and government laboratories and implementations on
many machines are now starting to come on line.

This one-day course provides an introduction to the principles behind MPI
and a description of MPI's interface for Fortran programmers. The course
closes with MPI program demonstrations and a simple MPI exercise.

The course will be run by the University of Greenwich, under the auspices of
the London & South-East centre for High Performance Computing (SEL-HPC).
SEL-HPC is a JISC funded consortium comprised of the London Parallel
Applications Centre, the University of Greenwich, the University of Kent &
the University of London Computer Centre, formed in response to the new
technologies initiative in HPC. Further information about its activities can
be found at the SEL-HPC home page

Who should attend this course?

The course is aimed at computational scientists, engineers and
mathematicians with programming experience in Fortran who

   * wish to learn about message-passing and MPI
   * are interested in solving computationally-intensive applications on
     clusters of workstations and/or supercomputers

It is also aimed at lecturers and teaching staff who wish to introduce the
principles of message passing and specifically MPI into their own courses.
It is provided primarily for members of HEIs in London and the South East,
although members of HEIs in other parts of the UK are welcome to attend.

What will I gain from this course?

The course will provide you with:

   * an understanding of the key concepts of message passing
   * basic knowledge on how to develop and run simple MPI Fortran programs
   * a few pointers on how MPI might be useful to solving your large-scale
     scientific applications

What material does this course cover?

   * Introduction to HPC/Message Passing
   * Introduction to MPI
   * Basic MPI Fortran calls
   * Collective & Nonblocking communication
   * Running MPI / a simple example
   * MPI exercise in F77

Costs: This course is provided primarily for members of all HEFC funded
Universities and Colleges in London and the South East but is open to
members of other UK HEFC institutions. There is no fee, but to secure a
place, please register by April 19th.

Venue: 
School of Computing amd Mathematical Sciences, 
University of Greenwich, 
Wellington St, Woolwich,
LONDON SE18 6PF.

Programme: The course will run from 10.00 am to approximately 5.00 pm with a
break for lunch. It consists of lectures and hands-on workshops.

Cancellations: If you book but find that you are unable to attend please let
us know as soon as possible to allow us to contact delegates on the reserve
list.

An Introduction to MPI with Fortran - Registration form

I would like to attend the course "An Introduction to MPI with Fortran"
on 24th April 1996

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Completed forms or email applications should be sent to: 
A. T. Marsh
School of Computing amd Mathematical Sciences, 
University of Greenwich, 
Wellington St, Woolwich,
LONDON SE18 6PF.

Phone: 0181-331 8746  email: T.Marsh@gre.ac.uk   Fax: 0181-331 8665


