2011 High Performance Computing Boot Camp

For the second consecutive year, MAX and the University of Maryland’s Office of Information Technology partnered with each other to offer this boot camp.  Targeted at graduate students, research staff, and faculty members with computational science and engineering problems that demand high performance, the week-long course introduced participants to the basics of high performance parallel computing.  The course was taught by Dr. Alan Sussman, associate professor of computer science at the University of Maryland. Upon successful completion of the course, participants understood the basics of parallel computing and knew how to optimize sequential applications and write basic MPI and OpenMP applications. Attendees used queuing systems such as PBS and existing high-end resources at the University of Maryland during the course.