Events

Cactus Tutorial at LSU   338 Johnson Hall, LSU, 2005-02-18 13:00:00 - 2005-02-18 15:00:00

Tom Goodale will be holding a tutorial on the Cactus Framework on February 18 from 1:00 to 3:00 in the Johnston Hall 338 Training Room. The tutorial will be partly hands-on and computers will be provided with all necessary software installed. Cactus is an open source problem solving environment designed for scientists and engineers. Its modular structure easily enables parallel computation across different architectures and collaborative code development between different groups. Cactus originated in the academic research community, where it was developed and used over many years by a large international collaboration of physicists and computational scientists. You might consider using Cactus if you use computers for numerical problems, and need, now or in the future, to : * perform parallel programming in an easy but powerful manner using the language of your choice: F77, F90, C, C++. * run on a wide range of architectures and operating systems. * develop your code on the most convenient machine available, for example your workstation or laptop ... * and then simply move your code to a supercomputer (such as an IBM SP system (e.g Caspar), a Cray T3E or an SGI Origin) or large cluster (e.g. SuperMike) to go into production right away! * get a first parallel experience by turning your networked pool of PCs into a computing cluster. * work with collaborators on the same code * make use of the latest software technology: e.g. take advantage of research groups that spend their time thinking about the fastest way to bring simulation data to disk, how to visualize data from a running simulation or interact with it. You will find a reservation page at http://www.cct.lsu.edu/programs/trainingtutorials/index.php. Please reserve a spot so that we know how many people to prepare for.