SCHEDULE: NOV 16-22, 2013
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Supercomputing in Plain English
SESSION: Supercomputing in Plain English
EVENT TYPE: HPC Interconnections, HPC Educator Program
TIME: 10:30AM - 12:00PM
SESSION CHAIR: Steven Brandt
Presenter(s):Henry J. Neeman, Charles Peck
ROOM:708/710/712
ABSTRACT:
This session provides a broad overview of HPC. Topics include: what is supercomputing?; the fundamental issues of supercomputing (storage hierarchy, parallelism); hardware primer; introduction to the storage hierarchy; introduction to parallelism via an analogy (multiple people working on a jigsaw puzzle); Moore's Law; the motivation for using HPC. Prerequisite: basic computer literacy.
Chair/Presenter Details:
Steven Brandt (Chair) - Louisiana State University
Henry J. Neeman - University of Oklahoma
Charles Peck - Earlham College
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