Learning More About HPC & Parallel Computing

Webcasts of past NPACI/CAC workshops that introduce CAC and NPACI resources as well as HPC topics such as MPI programming, parallel program decomposition, types of parallel architectures. Contact us at cac-support if you have trouble with the webcast technology.

Fall 2001 CAC/NPACI workshop

Summer 2002 NPACI Parallel Computing Institute

Introductory presentations, tutorials, and Michigan courses on HPC and parallel computing:

Scheduling Jobs on Clusters, an introduction to job scheduling: Presentation ; this was presented to the CAEN Staff as part of the "CAEN Staff BrownBag Lunch Seminar Series" on 21 March 2007.

A Brief Introduction to The Center for Advanced Computing, an introduction to the mechanics of the CAC: Presentation and Handouts; this was presented to the Biostatistics group in Life Sciences on 25 May 2006.

Professor Quentin Stout's tutorial, Introduction to Effective Parallel Computing

Professor Stout's course on parallel computing, EECS 587

NPACI's Training Home Page

NCSA WebCT HPC Tutorials

May 2002 PSC Parallel Programming Techniques Workshop

Parallel computing portals:

PCOMP - NPACI's Parallel Computing Portal

IEEE's ParaScope

Grid Computing:

Introductory grid presentations and tutorials: Abhijit Bose's "Grid-in-an-Hour"

Grid centers and initiatives:

Michigan's MGRID

NPACI Grid

The Global Grid Forum

The EuroGrid

The Access Grid

Major grid tools:

The Globus Toolkit

Legion

CAC and NPACI Resources:

CAC Resources

NPACI Resources