Q2813@pucc.princeton.edu (Una Smith) (06/16/88)
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>fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Stevenson) (07/04/88)
Hi, I have sent a request a week ago regarding the posting in comp.parallel article #110 - John von Neumann National Supercomputing Center, 1988 Summer Institute. I wanted to know whether the offer applies only to people from U.S. institutions. I got no reply so far. Anybody out there? Thanks, --- George --- E-mail: gbaciu@watcgl.waterloo.edu -- Steve Stevenson fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (aka D. E. Stevenson), fpst@prism.clemson.csnet Department of Computer Science, comp.parallel Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell