[LA-SIGMA] Spring 2022: XSEDE Course in Applications of Parallel Computing

[Juana Moreno]

In collaboration with XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery 
Environment) and the University of California-Berkeley, LSU is offering 
an online graduate course on Applications of Parallel Computing. Please, 
register for PHYS 7895 (section 1) if you are interested. Postdocs can 
attend without registering but we ask you to notify us.

The course includes online video lectures, and autograded quizzes and 
homework assignments with access to free accounts on the NSF supported 
XSEDE supercomputers. Juana Moreno is the local instructor and will meet 
with the students weekly to discuss the material covered, questions on 
homework, and the final group project. The time of the weekly meeting 
will be agreed on after the term starts.

Key Topics covered in the course include:
     - Models for parallel programming.
     - Overview of parallelism in scientific applications and study of 
parallel algorithms for linear algebra, particles, meshes, sorting, FFT, 
graphs, machine learning, etc.
     - Survey of parallel machines and machine structures.
     - Programming shared- and distributed-memory parallel computers, 
GPUs, and cloud platforms.
     - Parallel programming languages, compilers, libraries and toolboxes.
     - Data partitioning techniques.
     - Techniques for synchronization and load balancing.
     - Detailed study and algorithm/program development of medium sized 
applications.

Course materials can be reviewed at 
https://sites.google.com/lbl.gov/cs267-spr2021/

For questions, please contact Juana Moreno at moreno at lsu.edu.