Q2813@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (Una Smith) (06/16/88)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 88 10:18 EDT From: Una Smith <Q2813@pucc.princeton.edu> Subject: Supercomputing Summer Institute To: comp-ai-digest@rutgers.edu John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center 1988 Summer Institute "An Intensive Introduction to Vector and Parallel Supercomputing" August 1-12, 1988 Objectives The John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center (JvNC) will hold its third annual Summer Institute during August 1-12, 1988 at the JvNC in Princeton, New Jersey. The principal goals of the Institute are to teach the participants how to use supercomputers effectively and to provide an intensive mini-course in computational scientific research. Facilities The JvNC operates the first production Class VII supercomputer, the ETA 10, installed at the JvNC in March, 1988. The ETA 10 is presently configured with 128 million words of shared memory and four Central Processing Units (CPUs) each equipped with four million words of local memory. The JvNC also operates two CYBER 205 supercomputers, configured with four million words of memory. All supercomputers are accesssed from the DEC 8600 front-end computers at the JvNC operating under VMS or Ultrix (UNIX). The PEP software, a series of user-friendly, command driven interactive procedures, allows users to execute programs on the ETA 10 and CYBER 205 without the need for learning the supercomputer's operating system. The JvNC Visualization Facility includes two Silicon Graphics Iris 4D workstations and two Sun 3/160 workstations with presentation and draft quality color hardcopy. Operation The Summer Institute will be equally divided between the classroom and the laboratory. The classroom portion will include lectures by JvNC staff on the overall JvNC computer environment, vector computing, parallel computing, advanced performance programming, communications and networking, and graphics. In addition, there will be invited lectures on computational chemistry, algorithms for parallel machines, computational fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and visualization. The laboratory portion will include detailed consulting by User Services on program optimization for the ETA 10 and CYBER 205, and utilization of the JvNC Visualization Facility. The participants shall be awarded an allocation of supercomputer time for their research projects. Participants Postdoctoral, graduate and advanced undergraduate students at U.S. universities and colleges are eligible to apply for the Summer Institute. Knowledge of Fortran is a prerequisite. Experience with vectorization and supercomputers is not required. Each participant is expected to be engaged in a computational research project and bring an operational Fortran code for further development and production runs during the Institute. Financial Support The JvNC will provide reimbursement for travel, accommodations and meals up to $1500 per participant according to NSF policies. Air travel shall be economy class and local accommodations will be organized through the JvNC. Meals will be reimbursed up to a maximum per diem. There is no separate stipend. Application Interested persons should submit the following information: - Curriculum vitae, indicating university or college affiliation, courses of study, undergraduate and graduate transcript (as appropriate), address and telephone (office and home) - Two letters of recommendation from faculty advisors or instructors - Description of computational research project The information should be submitted by 24 June 1988. All applications should be sent to: John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center Summer Institute P.O. Box 3717 Princeton, NJ 08543 For further information, contact David Salzman at 609/520-2000 or <salzman@jvnca.csc.org> or <SALZMAN@JVNCD.BITNET>