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Contents 1 These are Carolyn Golden's notes 2 Important Websites 3 Setting up clusters 3.1 Creating a Computer Science course or incorporating within the network/distributed systems class 3.2 Creating a modeling/simulation class or an addition to data structures 4 Chaco canyon National park, 5 tom's example

These are Carolyn Golden's notes

Description: This week I would like to come away with ideas on creating a class on Computational Science for my computer science students. I would like for this course to include topics such as: building a cluster (setting it up, installing the operating system, etc), a little FORTRAN or C, MPI, amd parallel programming. I just have an introduction to building clusters and MPI and I am new to doing parallel programming. After my students become use the hardware and the procedures to do the work, we can use the cluser to work with bio-informatics with the biology faculty and for use with the chemistry department.

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cserd - used to gather resources for a particular subject that you are interested in

Using the wiki:

creating a page

wikispaces.com - you can use to create a wiki without knowing HTML

Important Websites

• http://shodor.org/cserd/
  • library resources
• http://www.wikispaces.com//
  • lets you create a wiki without knowing html
• http://sc-education.org
  • SC08 education site

Setting up clusters

Using the cserd site the following websites can be used

learning about clusters

Using documentation from the Debain cluster project to help build a cluster. There is a lot of information about how to build, install, and maintain clusters.

• introduction to MPI
  • cyberinfrastructure tutor has a number of classes to teach about MPI
    • ci-tutor.ncsa.uiuc.edu

OSCAR - a snapshot of the best known methods for building, programming, and using clusters.

Creating a Computer Science course or incorporating within the network/distributed systems class

• • Must have some knowledge about programming
    • offer students the opportunity of learning FORTRAN
  • Build a cluster to be used (install)
  • Learn MPI (installing and programming)
  • Assign Programs that work single thread or in parallel

Creating a modeling/simulation class or an addition to data structures

Chaco canyon National park,

this is a test of the ability of charlie to type of the fly.

tom's example

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tools on interactive were discussed. Tools were developed for students in grades K-12 but can be adapted for college students.

Good discussion over clusters.

• ------- What should be in a course for computational science ---*

Introduction to Computational Science

• What is Computational Science?
• What is its purpose?
• Why do we need to study it?

Introduction to clusters

• What is a cluster?
• Why are they needed?
• how they are implemented
  • Lab assignment: Determine what it would take to build a small cluster with existing hardware.
  • What software is needed is get the job done.
  • Lab assignment: building a small cluster

Introduction to MPI.

• What is MPI?
• What is needed to implement it?
  • Lab assignment:installing MPI on the cluster
  • Lab assignments: Coding using MPI.

Introduction to Fortran Programming

• How to code in Fortran
• Why do we need it?
• Can other languages be used?
  • Lab assignments: Write small program in FORTRAN
  • Lab assignments: Run program in serial.

Introduction to parallel Programming

• What is parallel Programming?
• Why do we need it?
  • Lab assignment:Convert program to parallel.
  • Lab assignment:Run programming in parallel and check times.

Using an established cluster

• Why should we use an established cluster?
• What are the benefits of using an established cluster?
  • Lab Assignment:
  • Lab Assignment: