edwest@utcs.UUCP (12/09/86)
CRAY SUPERCOMPUTER SEMINARS
The Centre for Large Scale Computation at the University of Toronto
regularly schedules courses on "Basic COS and Fortran" (CRAY101) and
"Efficient Use of the CRAY System" (CRAY102). Because hands-on
experience with the CRAY is provided as part of the course, enrollment
is limited to ten participants per session. Each course lasts a week
and consists of one two-hour session each day.
CLSC recognizes that this arrangement may be inconvenient for Cray
users from outside the Toronto area. A course designed specifically for
these users has been scheduled on the 12th and 13th of January. Its
contents will be identical to CRAY101 and CRAY102 combined, but it will
offer more hours per day, therefore reducing total number of days to
two.
Because the number of participants which can be accommodated at
each session is limited, some users may have to wait for the next cycle
of courses. In order to provide a large number of people with basic
introductory information about CRAY computing issues, CLSC is offering
the following special lecture-only presentation.
An Introduction to Computing on the CRAY
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Friday, January 30, 1987
12:30 pm to 8:30 PM
Media Room: room 179
University College
15 King's College Circle
University of Toronto
1. Summary of CRAY XM-P architecture (1hr)
2. Access to the CRAY (1hr)
3. COS Job Control Language (JCL) overview (2hrs)
4. Dinner break (scheduled for 4:30pm) (1hr)
5. Cray Fortran (CFT and CFT77) usage (1hr)
6. Code optimization and vectorization (2hrs)
The lectures are free, but there will be a charge of $20.00 to
cover the cost of producing course materials.
The presentation will consist of seven 50 minute lectures separated
by 10 minute breaks. An hour will be allowed for dinner. Adequate time
for questions will be included during lectures.
Course handouts will contain copies of all overheads as well as
selected problems and their solutions, including Cray job and output
datasets. The handouts will emphasize what tools are available and
where to find out about them (i.e. pointers to Cray manuals), rather
than details of the various options which are available in the manuals.
We cannot provide an on-line Cray demonstration to a wide audience,
but ample run examples will be discussed and will be included in the
handouts. We have prepared on-line examples which we can send by
electronic mail to interested parties. Although in the amount of time
allowed we cannot provide examples of real code conversion, we will
discuss code migration issues.
Participants are advised to reserve a place by contacting CLSC by
mail or phone and prepaying for the handouts by cheque payable to the
University of Toronto or by supplying a valid CLSC CAN.
Pre-registration by electronic mail (providing a CLSC CAN for payment)
is also encouraged.
Mailing address: Centre for Large Scale Computation
at the University of Toronto
Room 345, Mclennan Laboratories
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7
Telephone: (416) 978-8255 or (416) 978-8256
Electronic mail: PEZACKI at utoronto [VM/CMS]
YANNA at utorscs [VMS]