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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center offers a variety of workshops, both at PSC and off-site, on subjects ranging from code optimization and parallel programming to specific scientific topics.
For more information about PSC's education, outreach and training programs, see http://outreach.psc.edu or view upcoming training events, or send e-mail to workshop@psc.edu.
Recent Workshops
Parallel Programming and Cluster Computing Workshop, July 5-11, 2009
The Parallel Programming and Cluster Computing workshop focused on techniques and tools for parallel computing. This workshop was offered at Louisiana State University and simulcast at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.>>Workshop Website
TAGPMA Federated Identity Workshop, April 29, 2009
The 9th meeting of The Americas Grid Policy Management Authority held at PSC in Pittsburgh PA. This all day event, open to the public, included presentations from vendors offering security and identity services such as Verizon Business Services, SafeNet & Aladdin.
>>Learn More >>TeraGrid New User Training, April 24, 2009
The session was delivered using
ReadyTalk web-based teleconferencing,
and included hands-on opportunities. Topics covered
included Portal Overview, TeraGrid Knowledge Base, Accessing Resources, etc.
>> Download the slides (pdf)
>> Play the
audiovisual recording.
Multi-core Programming and Performance Tuning, March 23-26, 2009
Intel Corporation experts presented the latest architectures and
how to take advantage of them for modeling and simulation codes, focusing
on the upcoming generation of very large shared memory machines.>>Review Presentations and Info
TeraGrid New User Training, January 30, 2009
The session was delivered using ReadyTalk web-based teleconferencing, and included hands-on opportunities. Multiple topics were covered including Portal Overview, TeraGrid Knowledge Base, Accessing Resources, etc.
>> Download the slides
(pdf)
TeraGrid New User Training, October 31, 2008
The session was delivered using ReadyTalk web-based teleconferencing, and included hands-on opportunities. Multiple topics were covered including Portal Overview, TeraGrid Knowledge Base, Accessing Resources, etc.
>> Download the slides (pdf)
Hybrid Programming for Shared-Memory and Clustered SMP Systems, September 8-11, 2008
Programming models and techniques for writing efficient parallel code on contemporary and future supercomputers with extensive shared memory, or hierarchical architectures with smaller shared-memory components were presented. Two important systems to which these techniques apply are the SGI Altix and networked clusters of multi-core processors.