Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: C.Walshaw@gre.ac.uk (Chris Walshaw)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Computational Mechanics for HPC - 1 day course
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 14:31:21 +0100
Message-ID: <3nlija$i97@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

Announcing a one day course in:

	Strategies for Mapping Computational Mechanics Problems
		to High Performance Computers

Typical Computational Mechanics (CM) and Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) applications, with their large CPU requirements
but reasonably sparse connectivity patterns, are potentially in an
excellent position to exploit the emerging High Performance
Computing (HPC) technologies to obtain a far greater throughput
of results.

The University of Greenwich, under the auspices of the London &
South-East centre for High Performance Computing (SEL-HPC), will be
presenting an introductory one day course to address this topic.
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 on the world wide web at the URL:
	http://www.lpac.ac.uk/SEL-HPC/

Who should attend this course?

The course is aimed at computational scientists, engineers and
mathematicians with programming experience in Fortran or C who
are interested in exploiting HPC facilities. It is also aimed at
lecturers and teaching staff who wish to introduce the principles
of HPC 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?

This one day course will provide you with:

	o insight and initial experience into the ideas of HPC
	o access to the training materials being developed by SEL-HPC
		for your own use
	o contact points for further resourses such toolkits and software
		libraries

What material does this course cover?

The course will take you through an introduction to HPC, with a
brief look at machines available, their architectures and
programing strategies. It will focus on the single program
multiple data (SPMD) paradigm and cover its application to CM
mesh based codes. It will also provide a introduction to the
available software libraries and parallelisation tools. It will
include two short workshop sessions in message passing and
parallelisation tools.


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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 10th May. 

Venue:
School of Maths, University of Greenwich, Wellington St,
Woolwich, LONDON SE18 6PF.

Lecturers:
Mark Cross, Chris Walshaw, Choi-Hong Lai, Kevin McManus & Emyr Evans.

Programme:
The course will run from 10.00 am to approximately 4.30 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. 

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Strategies for Mapping Computational Mechanics Problems to High Performance
Computers - Registration form

I would like to attend the course "Strategies for Mapping Computational
Mechanics Problems" on 24th May 1995

Name:
Department and Institution:
Address for Correspondance:

Email:
Phone:

Completed forms or email applications should be sent to: C. Walshaw,
School of Maths, University of Greenwich, Wellington St, Woolwich,
LONDON SE18 6PF.
Phone: 0181 331 8142	email: C.Walshaw@gre.ac.uk	Fax: 0181 331 8665

