Artikel in Tagungsband INPROC-2005-40

Bibliograph.
Daten
Bernreuther, Martin; Brenk, Markus; Bungartz, Hans-Joachim; Mundani, Ralf-Peter; Muntean, Ioan Lucian: Teaching High-Performance Computing on a High-Performance Cluster.
In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Compuatational Science : ICCS 2005; Emory University, Atlanta, USA, May 22-25, 2005.
Universität Stuttgart, Fakultät Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, S. 1-9, englisch.
Atlanta: Springer, Mai 2005.
Artikel in Tagungsband (Konferenz-Beitrag).
CR-Klassif.D.1.3 (Concurrent Programming)
F.1.2 (Modes of Computation)
G.1.0 (Numerical Analysis General)
G.4 (Mathematical Software)
I.6.8 (Types of Simulation)
J.2 (Physical Sciences and Engineering)
Kurzfassung

The university education in parallel and high-performance computing often suffers from a significant gap between the effects and potential performance taught in the lectures on the one hand and those practically experienced in exercises or lab courses on the other hand. With a small number of processors, the results obtained are often hardly convincing; however, machines crunching numbers at least a bit are rarely accessible to students doing their first steps in parallel programming. In this contribution, we present our experiences of how a state-of-the- art mid-size Linux cluster (64 dual-board P4 nodes with InfiniBand 4x networking, providing an HPL benchmark performance of almost 0.6 TFlops), bought and operated on a department level primarily for edu- cation and algorithm development purposes, can be used for teaching a large variety of HPC aspects such as basics of parallel algorithms, classi- cal tuning, or hardware-aware programming. Special focus is put on the effects of such an approach on the intensity and sustainability of learning.

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Abteilung(en)Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Parallele und Verteilte Systeme, Simulation großer Systeme
Eingabedatum26. Oktober 2005
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