the 2012 SDSC Summer Institute was held August 6–10. This was a unique opportunity for participants to focus on specific challenges in their research. Whether it’s optimizing a computationally intensive piece of code, improving I/O, or beginning the process of refactoring software to make best use of SDSC’s HPC resources, participants will get what they need from the program. And because real progress can only come by doing, attendees will have ample time for both hands-on lessons that complement the lectures and opportunities to work on their applications together with SDSC staff.
Topics covered included:
- Overview of the Gordon and Trestles architectures
- Data intensive computing
- Developing shared memory applications
- Improving I/O performance with flash storage
- Using vSMP for large shared memory
- Visualization using Gordon
- Developing Science Gateways
- Overview of software, libraries, tools, and compiler options for achieving optimal performance
- XSEDE allocations process and writing a strong proposal
All current and potential users of SDSC resources are invited to apply, but experience working in a UNIX/Linux environment is essential. Preference will be given to those applicants who have some programming experience (e.g. C/C++, Fortran, R, Python) and a particular computational problem they are trying to solve.
Here is a group picture from the event (click to enlarge):
