Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: phw@ukc.ac.uk (P.H.Welch)
Subject: Education and Training for HPC
Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 18:29:09 GMT
Message-ID: <727@larch.ukc.ac.uk>


Dear All,

I enclose an invitation to the public launch of the SEL-HPC Education
and Training consortium.  I apologise to those too far away for this
to be relevant ... I don't know if it's possible to have restricted
this distribution to the geographical region of, say, a few hundred
miles from London, UK?

Anyway, SEL-HPC is explained below ... it has been funded by the UK
Higher Education Funding Council (JISC) but will be preparing training
materials for world-wide distribution in due course.  To come to the
launch you do need to respond electronically with the form below by the
middle of next week!

Many apologies again if I have disturbed you unnecessarily.

Peter Welch (University of Kent at Canterbury).

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Launch of London and South-East Centre for High Performance Computing
(SEL-HPC) and its Education and Training programme

10th May, 2.30pm
at ULCC, 20 Guilford Street, London  WC1N 1DZ

At the launch you will be able to hear about SEL-HPC's plans for
assisting development of HPC awareness in all Higher Education
Institutions in the London and South-East region through Education and
Training and related activities.  In addition, you will be able to find
out how HEIs can become formal Associates of SEL-HPC or collaborate
with its programme.  The formal presentations will be followed by an
informal reception to celebrate the Centre's launch.

SEL-HPC is a consortium formed by the London Parallel Applications
Centre, the University of Greenwich, the University of Kent and ULCC
and is one of five such regional centres of expertise funded on behalf
of the Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland and
Wales through the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) New
Technologies Initiative.  The other regional centres are located at the
Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton and Wales
(Cardiff).  In addition, there is a centre of expertise supported at
Queen's University, Belfast.  As regional centres, each will be
concentrating on the needs of the HEIs in its own region and this
launch meeting gives an opportunity for those in London and the
South-East to find out about their HPC Centre and its plans and to
provide input to its further development.

SEL-HPC's planned activities include designing a comprehensive range of
HPC courses for use in staff and postgraduate training - some courses
will be given as part of the programme and course materials will be
made available to trainers at other sites.  Topics will cover:

        introduction to HPC systems
        basic parallel methodologies
        parallel languages, e.g. HPF/Fortran 90, occam2.5
        SIMD and MIMD architectures
        workstation and supercomputer interaction
        applications techniques
        software tools for parallel environments

The study of networking and workstation clusters will be carried out in
programmes linked to the Centre thereby ensuring early incorporation of
developments into the training courses.  Other areas of investigation
will include interdisciplinary applications and the support of
technology development.  The consortium also intends to foster
industrial collaboration where appropriate by technology transfer and
joint projects.

SEL-HPC can provide access to a wide range of HPC hardware to support
education and training activities, including the large memory Convex
supercomputer at ULCC, an 8192-processor MasPar, a 155-node Meiko, many
other multi-transputer and i860 machines, and several DAPs.

I attach a registration form - please copy for colleagues who may be
interested - for return to Anne Stephenson (ULCC) by Wednesday 4th May.


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SEL-HPC LAUNCH ON TUESDAY 10TH MAY, ULCC AT 2.30PM

Please register a place for me at SEL-HPC's Launch.*
I am unable to attend but would like to receive further information.*
(* - delete as appropriate)

Name: __________________________________________________________

Institution / Organisation: ____________________________________

Address: _______________________________________________________

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         _______________________________________________________

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e-mail:  _______________________________________________________



Please return completed copy of this form by Wednesday 4th May to:

        Anne Stephenson
        ULCC
        20 Guilford Street
        London  WC1N 1DZ
        FAX: 071-242 1845
        e-mail: A.Stephenson@ulcc.ac.uk


