> **This is an archived copy of the 2014 Winter School page.** ======HPC School and Competition 30 June to 5 July 2014====== **University of Cape Town** =====REGISTRATION===== **Room 303 of Computer Science** from **08:00** on **Monday 30 June 2014**. =====Programme Overview===== **Note: The times have changed! Everything is 30 minutes //earlier!//** ^ ^ Sun 29 Jun ^ Monday 30 Jun ^ Tuesday 1 Jul ^ Wednesday 2 Jul ^ Thursday 3 Jul ^ Friday 4 Jul ^ Saturday 5 Jul ^ ^ 08:00 | | Registration | | | | | | ^ 08:30 | | Lecture 1 | Lecture 3 | Lecture 5 | Lecture 7 | Lecture 9 | Evaluation 1 | ^ 10:00 | | //break// ||||| | ^ 10:30 | | Lecture 2 | Lecture 4 | Lecture 6 | Lecture 8 | Lecture 10 | Evaluation 2 | ^ 12:00 | | //lunch// ||||| | ^ 13:00 | | Practical 1 | Practical 3 | Practical 5 | Practical 7 | Practical 9 | //Departures// | ^ 14:30 | | //break// ||||| | ^ 15:00 | //Arrivals// | Practical 2 | Practical 4 | Practical 6 | Practical 8 | Practical 10 | | ^ 16:30 | | //end of day// ||||| | =====HPC School Programme===== ====Monday 30 June==== ===Lecture 1=== * Introduction to computer architecture * Linux for programmers ===Lecture 2=== * Parallel architectures * HPC environments ===Practical 1=== * Accessing Linux systems * Configuring the shell * Software installation ===Practical 2=== * Compilers * Job submission ====Tuesday 1 July==== ===Lecture 3=== ===Lecture 4=== ===Practical 3=== ===Practical 4=== ====Wednesday 2 July==== ===Lecture 5=== ===Lecture 6=== ===Practical 5=== ===Practical 6=== ====Thursday 3 July==== ===Lecture 7=== ===Lecture 8=== ===Practical 7=== ===Practical 8=== ====Friday 4 July==== ===Lecture 9=== ===Lecture 10=== ===Practical 9=== ===Practical 10=== ====Saturday 5 July==== ===Evaluation 1=== ===Evaluation 2=== =====Cluster Competition Programme===== ====Monday 30 June==== ===Lectures 1 & 2 (Venue: TBA)=== * Introduction to Linux * Introduction to Hardware * Introduction to Clusters ===Practical 1 & 2 (Venue: CS SciLab A)=== * Using the CHPC Private Cloud * DNS ====Tuesday 1 July==== ===Lectures 3 & 4 (Venue: TBA)=== * Linux Basics ===Practical 3 & 4 (Venue: CS SciLab A)=== * LDAP ====Wednesday 2 July==== ===Lecture 5 & 6 (Venue: TBA)=== * Client / Server Software Model ===Practical 5 & 6 (Venue: CS SciLab A)=== * NFS * Ganglia ====Thursday 3 July==== ===Lecture 7 & 8 (Venue: TBA)=== * Linux Software for HPC ===Practical 7 & 8 (Venue: CS SciLab A)=== * NTP * Torque ====Friday 4 July==== ===Lecture 9 & 10 (Venue: TBA)=== * Parallel System Control ===Practical 9 & 10 (Venue: CS SciLab A)=== * Assignment ====Saturday 5 July==== ===Evaluation: All Day (Venue: TBA)=== =====General Information===== ====The CHPC Winter School consists of:==== 1) The undergrad **//2014 Student Cluster Competition//** and 2) The postgrad **//2014 HPC Winter School in Parallel Programming//** ====VENUE:==== Both events take place in the Computer Science building on the Upper Campus of UCT. ====REGISTRATION==== **Room 303 of Computer Science** from **08:00** on **Monday 30 June 2014**. ====PROGRAMME:==== The Winter School starts at 08:00 on Monday 30 June 2014 with registration in room SC303, on the third floor of the Computer Science building. The two events then begin at 09:00 in LT 3.02 for the Competition and 3.03 for the Parallel Programming School. A more detailed programme will be provided at registration. Also see this [[workshops:hpcschool|wiki]]. ====MAPS:==== See the UCT [[http://www.uct.ac.za/contact/campus/|maps]]. If you are driving yourself to the School, see the route maps at http://www.uct.ac.za/contact/route/ You should park in the P6 parking lot and walk along University Avenue to the Computer Science building as shown in the map at http://www.uct.ac.za/images/uct.ac.za/contact/campusmaps/big/uctuppercampus.jpg The blue disk (P6) indicates the parking lot. The red disk (JS) just next to it shows where the Jamie Shuttle from the residence will drop you off, if you are in ====RESIDENCE:==== Students who will be accommodated by us during the Winter School will be staying in Baxter Hall on Lower Campus. Look at the map http://www.uct.ac.za/images/uct.ac.za/contact/campusmaps/big/uctmiddlelowercampus.jpg and see that Baxter Hall is just above the note "To Rosebank Station". The CHPC is just below Rosebank Station, not shown in the map, and we will arrange an excursion to the Centre for those interested in seeing South Africa's supercomputer centre. NB: note the blue dashed line on the map that leads from Baxter Hall to Upper Campus. This is the "blue light" pedestrian route from the residence to Upper Campus. It is patrolled by campus security and the recommended safer walking route. There is also the regular Jammie Shuttle bus transport from just next to Baxter Hall, the red (JS) indicates the terminal, which you can catch every day to get to Upper Campus quickly. ====FLIGHTS:==== Students who have their travel sponsored by us should have received your e-tickets by now. Note that transport to and from your home airport is at your own expense and own responsibility. When you arrive at Cape Town airport, we will have the Jamie Shuttle service available to pick you up. Look out for the person with the "CHPC Winter School" sign. And at the end of the Winter School, the Jamie Shuttle service will also shuttle you back to Cape Town airport for your return flight. =====About===== The **HPC Winter School** is the CHPC's flagship course in //parallel programming// for high performance computing covering: * Introduction to high performance computing hardware, systems and techniques * Multi-core programming with OpenMP * Using message passing (MPI) on cluster super computers * High performance co-processors * Rapid prototyping for HPC with python Applications for The 2014 HPC Winter School are now **closed**.