CSAR Bulletin issued in October 2005

HPC-UK: A New HPC Consortium Links CCLRC, Edinburgh and Manchester

The Universities of Edinburgh and Manchester, and CCLRC announce the formation of a new consortium to support UK research using HPC.

The partners in the consortium have supported all the UK's national academic HPC services over the last 20 years, including recently both HPCx and CSAR. Between us, we think we have a breadth and depth of experience, in computational science, in applications areas and in the provision of service to users, which is truly world class.

Press release:

http://www.mc.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/hpc-uk/

HPC-UK:

http://www.hpc-uk.ac.uk/

CSAR Courses

The following course will run this week:

• Introduction to HPC and the CSAR Service (7 October)

This course gives an overview of High Performance Computing in general, and an introduction to HPC using the CSAR service.

The following topics will be covered:

What is HPC & Supercomputing? / Common HPC jargon
A quick overview of MPI and OpenMP
The main types of supercomputer / HPC in the UK CSAR - what it is, how it works and getting the most out it

Upcoming courses in October:

• Shared Memory Parallelisation with OpenMP (21 October)

Three separate MPI (Message Passing Interface) courses which can be taken separately as required or together to teach you all you need to know about programming in MPI.

• Introduction to MPI (25 October)
• Advanced MPI (26 October)
• MPI One-Sided communication and MPI-IO (27 October)

Booking information and a full list of this semesters courses, including course outlines, can be found at:http://www.mc.manchester.ac.uk/services/courses/