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Archive of Course and Workshop Materials


Note: Our annual parallel computing and visualization week long workshops are held every spring/summer.

2011 Courses:

The 2011 Summer Visualization workshop course material:
The 2011 Spring High Performance Computing workshop course material:
The 2011 Winter workshop course material:

2010 Courses:

The 2010 Fall workshop course material:
The 2010 Summer Visualization workshop course material:
The 2010 Spring High Performance Computing workshop course material:

2009 Courses:

The 2009 Visualization workshop course material:
The 2009 High Performance Computing workshop course material:



2008 Courses:

The 2008 "High Performance Computing and Visualization" workshop course material:

2007 Courses:

The 2007 "High Performance Computing and Visualization" workshop course material:


2006 Courses:

The 2006 "Parallel Computing and Visualization" workshop course material:


2005 Courses:

The 2005 "Parallel Computing and Visualization" series of workshops was held May 2-6:

2004 Courses:

The 2004 "Parallel Computing and Visualization" series of workshops was held May 25-28:

2003 Courses:

The 2003 "Parallel Computing and Visualization" series of workshops was held June 16-18:

2002 Courses:

The 2002 "Parallel Computing and Visualization" series of workshops was held April 29 - May 3:
  • April 29, morning: Introduction to Parallelism and the MACI Facilities. Copies of the slides for "Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Programming" by Dr. Nelson Amaral, are available at: www.cs.ualberta.ca/~amaral/talks/MACI-Apr2002/index.htm
  • April 29, afternoon: Visualization Techniques and Packages.
  • April 30, morning: Introduction to OpenMP. The handouts are available: omp-from-scratch.pdf (219 K PDF).
  • April 30, afternoon: MPI and PVM. The slides are available: fujinaga.aprilppt.pdf (4.2 MB PDF).
  • May 2-3: SGI Tools. Handout, for those who were registered in the SGI workshop, are available on request.
  • May 1: Grid Computing in Canada: Information about the web cast and presentation slides for the Grid workshop are available at: www.netera.ca/grid

2001 Courses:

The 2001 "Parallel Computing and Visualization" series of courses was held April 30 - May 4:
  • Introduction to MACI Facilities, Dr. Richard Marchand, Ron Senda, University of Alberta.
  • Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Programming, Dr. Jose Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta.
  • Introduction to OpenMP, Dr. Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick. OpenMP.Eric.pdf
  • Selected Topics in OpenMP, Dr. Gabriel Mateescu, National Research Council. openmp.gabrial.pdf
  • Introduction to MPI, Dr. Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick. Intro_to_MPI.pdf
  • SGI Tools, Dr. Jack Perry, SGI Scientific Computing Specialist (Handout, for those who were registered in the SGI workshop, are available on request):
    • Computer Architecture
    • The MIPSpro Compilers 1
    • Compilers Advanced
    • Message Passing Interface
    • Open MP
    • Origin 2000
    • Shared Variable parallelism
    • Program Development
    • The MIPS R1X000 Processor
    • Scalar Optimization
  • Visualization with VU, Dr. Benoit Ozell, École polytechnique de Montréal:
  • Using PBS, Neil Burch, Marc La France, Computing and Network Services, UofA.

2000 Courses:

The courses held in the spring of 2000 took the form of a lab/workshop; and no formal course material was given.

1999 Courses:

Some presentation slides from the 1999 series of courses are still available:

1998 Courses:

The courses held just after aurora arrived took the form of a lab/workshop given by SGI.


Revised: August 25, 2011

 

 
 

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