Tutorials

Cactus Boundary Conditions

Presented At: Albert-Einstein-Institut
Total Length: One Hour
Last Update: May 2003

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Developing HPC Scientific and Engineering Applications: From the Laptop to the Grid

Presented At: HPDC12/GGF8
Total Length: Three Hours
Last Update: May 2003

1. Introduction
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2. HPC Issues
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3. Introduction to Grid Computing
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4. Scenarios for Grid Applications
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5. Developing Applications on Today's Grids
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Developing HPC Scientific and Engineering Applications: From the Laptop to the Grid

Presented At: SC2002 Total Length: Six Hours Last Update: October 2002

1. Introduction
[PPT] [PDF]

2. HPC Issues
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3. The Cactus Code
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4. Introduction to Grid Computing
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5. Scenarios for Grid Applications
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6. Developing Applications on Today's Grids
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Application Developers (Targeted at Numerical Relativity)

Last Update: June 2002
Version: Beta 12

1. Overview, Design Principles and Architecture
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2. Using Cactus
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3. The Einstein Toolkit
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Application Developers Tutorial

Last Major Update: December 8th 2000

1. Outline
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2. Introduction
Introduction to the Cactus Code and its philosophy.
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3. Design Requirements and Their Realization
A review of the issues that influenced the design of Cactus 4.0, and a description of their final implementation in the code.
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4. Example Application: 3D Scalar Wave Equation
Worked through example showing how to take a simple, single processor code and put it into the Cactus framework.
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5. Overview for Application Developer
General overview of many different program features for those writing application thorns.
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6. Connections to Other Packages
A description of some of the external packages which Cactus interfaces with, such as HDF5, Globus, MPI, PAPI, PandaIO, FlexIO.
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7. New and Cool
A description of some of the new features available now and to come soon, including remote monitoring, steering and visualization of Cactus simulations.
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8. Conclusion
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