The workshop will focus on High-Performance Computing education and training including CPU technologies, accelerators, networking, storage, software middleware and various applications. The workshop will also cover advanced topics such as MPI offloads, networking optimizations and will feature presenters from the Swiss Supercomputing Centre, Simula Research Laboratory, HPC Advisory Council professionals as well as technologists from various Independent Software Vendors and OEMs. Hands-on training will be incorporated within the workshop agenda to allow participants to actually configure and test high-performance clusters. The workshop will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists, students and industry affiliates for cross-training and to discuss recent HPC developments and future advancements.

http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/switzerland_workshop/

This seminar provides an example-based methodology for designing operational, technical and systems architecture views and products that are consistent with the guidelines of the DoDArchitecture Framework (DoDAF). You will receive step-by-step compliance guidelines for ensuring your technologies, systems and architectures meet the technical and architectural requirements imposed by the DoD. Learn practical techniques for creating and evaluating required architecture products. Learn how to save time following successful strategies while avoiding costly pitfalls when meeting DoD requirements.

http://ttcus.com/view-seminar.cfm?id=103

This half-day lecture is part of a series of short lectures presented by TACC this spring for foundational skills.Basic C programming skills are essential for researchers in areas of High Performance Computing. These skills can be directly applied to resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and in any Unix environment. This class is intended for the beginner and intermediate user wishing to gain more experience in C programming.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

C++ is often characterized in the Scientific Community as being too bloated, slow, and complicated to be useful. In fact, quite the opposite is true. A number of high-powered, modern, extensible numerical software libraries now utilize C++; having some knowledge of the language is therefore beneficial now and for the foreseeable future. In this combined lecture and lab session, we will discuss basics of C++ usage including I/O, vectors, objects, and their relation to the same concepts in C. Special attention will be devoted to important topics like memory management, references vs. pointers, and the STL, which we feel are essential to effective use of the language by beginners, but which are typically relegated to more advanced courses.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/classes/c-plus-programming-basics/

The International Workshop on Virtualization Performance: Analysis, Characterization and Tools (VPACT) is a selective venue for reporting and discussing new initial results in the measurement, characterization, analysis, and modeling of the performance of virtualized computer systems, including the tools to support such work. VPACT is interested in results at all scales, including multicore/manycore processors, mobile devices, desktops, servers, data centers, clusters, parallel supercomputers, and distributed virtualized computing environments.

http://www.hpcwire.com/events/?month=3&year=2010

The course covers profiling and debugging technologies available at TACC for performance optimization and debugging of serial and parallel codes. The course contains instructions for beginners and advanced users, along with a lab with demos and examples.

The course consists of two parts. The first part covers debugging techniques, starting from the basic use of the GNU debugger (GDB) and finishing with an example of use of the parallel debugger DDT. The second part of the course addresses optimization and scalability. This part contains instructions on general optimization strategies, the use of timers, the GNU profiler (GPROF), and the MPIp package for scalability analysis. An example of profiling with an integrated package like HPCToolkit or Tau is also given.

Prerequisites: A basic understanding of the UNIX/Linux command line environment is required. The lectures assume that you are familiar with either the C or the Fortran programming language.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

The 17th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2010) will be held in Atlanta, USA in April 2010. RAW 2010 is associated with the 24th Annual International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2010) and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. The workshop is one of the major meetings for researchers and practitioners to present ideas, results, and on-going research on both theoretical and practical advances in Reconfigurable Computing.

http://www.ece.lsu.edu/vaidy/raw/

Fortran programming skills are essential for researchers in areas of High Performance Computing. These skills can be directly applied to resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and in any Unix environment. The class is intended for the intermediate user wishing to gain more experience in Fortran90/95 programming. Basic knowledge of Fortran or another mid/high-level programming language is a prerequisite.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

Training for users who are new to TeraGrid will be provided on Friday, April 30, from 1-3pm Eastern (12-2pm Central, 10am-noon Pacific).

The session will be delivered using ReadyTalk web-based teleconferencing, and include hands-on opportunities. The following topics will be covered:

• Portal Overview
• TeraGrid Knowledge Base
• Accessing Resources
• File Transfers
• Ticket System
• Softenv & Modules
• Security
• Next Steps

If you are interested in participating, please send email to training@teragrid.org by close of business on Wednesday, before the session. We will send out email to respondents with instructions on how to join the telecon. You will need to have your TeraGrid portal account information available to fully participate in the session.

Note that this is a free session; there is no charge for ReadyTalk connections for participants. More information about this tool is available online at www.readytalk.com.

The National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (www.nrbsc.org) at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (www.psc.edu) and Carnegie Mellon University (www.cmu.edu) will host a 'Hands-On' Workshop on Computational Biophysics using NAMD and VMD on May 10-14, 2010. www.nrbsc.org/education/workshops/namd/

Applications are due by March 15, 2010 and selected participants will be notified by March 22, 2010. To apply online, please visit: www.nrbsc.org/education/workshops/register.php

http://www.nrbsc.org/education/workshops/register.php

WHGA2010 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Green Computing, Pervasive Computig, Networking, and Storage.

http://ag3.hpcc.jp/IWHGA2010/

The workshop will focus on HPC productivity, and advanced HPC topics and futures, and will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates to discuss recent developments and future advancements in High-Performance Computing.

http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/european_workshop/index.php

HPCS (High Performance Computing Symposium) is Canada’s foremost HPC conference – a multidisciplinary conference where computational researchers from all disciplines in industry and academia, computer scientists, and vendors exchange new tools, techniques and interesting results in and for HPC computational research.

http://www.hpcs2010.org/

The ScienceCloud workshop will focus on the use of cloud-based technologies to meet new compute intensive and data intensive scientific challenges that are not well served by the current supercomputers, grids or commercial clouds.

http://dsl.cs.uchicago.edu/ScienceCloud2010/

This workshop solicits original papers on performance evaluation methods, tools, and case studies explicitly focusing on the challenges of large scale, such as decentralization, predictable performance, reliability, and scalability. It aims to bring together system designers and researchers involved with the modeling and performance evaluation of large-scale systems and applications.

http://www.lsap2010.org/

The Third International Workshop on Data Intensive Distributed Computing (DIDC'10) will be held in conjunction with the 19th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC'10), in Chicago, IL.

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~kosar/didc10

VTDC brings together researchers in academia and industry who are involved in research, development and planning activities involving the use of virtualization in the context of distributed systems, where the opportunities and challenges with respect to the management of such virtualized systems is of interest to the ICAC community at large.

http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/VTDC10

This workshop focuses on the complex issues, such as adapting to heterogeneity and being dynamic in space and time, that arise in developing, deploying, and executing large-scale distributed computing applications in science, engineering, medicine, business, economics, education, and other disciplines.

http://sites.google.com/site/clade2010/

Training for users who are new to TeraGrid will be provided on Friday, July 23, from 1-3pm Eastern (12-2pm Central, 10am-noon Pacific).

The session will be delivered using ReadyTalk web-based teleconferencing, and include hands-on opportunities. The following topics will be covered:

• Portal Overview
• TeraGrid Knowledge Base
• Accessing Resources
• File Transfers
• Ticket System
• Softenv & Modules
• Security
• Next Steps

If you are interested in participating, please send email to training@teragrid.org by close of business on Wednesday, before the session. We will send out email to respondents with instructions on how to join the telecon. You will need to have your TeraGrid portal account information available to fully participate in the session.

Note that this is a free session; there is no charge for ReadyTalk connections for participants. More information about this tool is available online at www.readytalk.com.

Training for users who are new to TeraGrid will be provided on Friday, October 29, from 1-3pm Eastern (12-2pm Central, 10am-noon Pacific).

The session will be delivered using ReadyTalk web-based teleconferencing, and include hands-on opportunities. The following topics will be covered:

• Portal Overview
• TeraGrid Knowledge Base
• Accessing Resources
• File Transfers
• Ticket System
• Softenv & Modules
• Security
• Next Steps

If you are interested in participating, please send email to training@teragrid.org by close of business on Wednesday, before the session. We will send out email to respondents with instructions on how to join the telecon. You will need to have your TeraGrid portal account information available to fully participate in the session.

Note that this is a free session; there is no charge for ReadyTalk connections for participants. More information about this tool is available online at www.readytalk.com.