[LA-SiGMA] Announcement: 6th Annual LONI Parallel Programming Workshop and NVidia Workshop

[Feng Chen]

Dear All,

The LSU Information Technology Services, LSU Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) are pleased to announce the following two workshops:


  *   6th Annual LONI Parallel Programming Workshop from May 29 - 30, 2017.
  *   NVidia GPU Workshop from May 31 - June 1, 2017.

Sponsors

Special thanks to the following for their generous support of the LONI Programming Workshop:


  *   Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI)
  *   Information Technology Services, Louisiana State University
  *   Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University

REGISTER NOW if you plan on attending the following events:

Note:


  *   The two workshops need to be registered *separately*
  *   The LONI programming workshop will  be broadcasted through WebEx for remote attendants.
  *   Coffee and lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.

*6th Annual LONI Parallel Programming Workshop*
Date: May 29 - 30, 2017
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Venue: To Be Determined
Website: http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/workshop.php
Registration Fee: None
Registration opens: April 1, 2017
Registration deadline: May 27, 2017

Description:
This workshop will first introduce users to the concepts of Parallel Programming, then cover how those concepts apply to solving problems frequently encountered in numerical studies such as matrix-matrix multiplication or laplacian solver, using the OpenMP/OpenACC shared memory, thread level parallelism. This workshop will be hands-on oriented, so the attendants are expected to have some prior programming experience in C/C++ and/or Fortran.

Schedule (Note: This tentative Schedule is subject to change.)

May 29: Parallel Programming Concepts and Introduction to OpenMP
May 30: Introduction to OpenACC and Understanding Parallel Applications

*NVidia Workshop*
Date: May 31 - June 1, 2017
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Venue: To Be Determined
Website: Registration<http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/workshop.php> link will come soon
Registration Fee: None

Schedule:

The two day workshop will focus on deep learning/machine learning, details will be provided later.

Please distribute to faculty, staff and students that might be interested.

Thanks,

Feng Chen, PhD
IT Consultant
High Performance Computing
Louisiana State University
329 Frey Computing Services Center, Baton Rouge, LA  70803
office 225-578-2924
fchen14 at lsu.edu<mailto:fchen14 at lsu.edu>

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