Once each semester the CAC offers short classes on several topics. The classes are generally about 2 hours long and are held on North Campus. While the classes are introductory in nature, some familiarity with Unix or Linux systems is very helpful.

For the Spring/Summer 2009 semester, the courses we are offering are:

Introduction to the CAC

Topics will include an introduction to our resources, use of our batch queuing system and compilers, and interaction with our cluster

(Now Closed)

October 5, 12:30p-2:30p
October 7, 12:30p-2:30p

Introduction to MPI Programming

Topics will include the ideas behind parallel programming, an introduction to the Message Passing Interface functions, and some common mistakes.

(Now Closed)

October 5, 2:30p-4:30p

High Performance Math - BLAS, FFT, and LAPACK

Topics will include:

• Why writing code is bad
• Extracting performance using libraries
• The Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms BLAS
• Linear Algebra Package LAPACK
• Free Parallelism with threaded BLAS
• FFT's using FFTW

 

(Now Closed)

October 7, 2:30p-4:30p

Documents and Sample Code

Below is an auto generated list of PDF's of all the finished training sessions. Introduction training is offered three times a year for all users. Research groups of 5 or more, just getting started, may request training outside the normal schedule. Please contact cac-support@umich.edu to schedule.

New training sessions are posted on the front page

 

High Performance Math
./blas-code.tar.gz
An Introduction to The Center for Advanced Computing
./cac-intro-code.tar.gz
An Introduction to MPI
./cac-mpi-code.tar.gz

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