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PET Summer Institute. Kim Kido | Univ. Hawaii Manoa. Thursday, July 27. Intro to parallel computing Intro to MHPCC Intro to IBM SMP hardware Intro to SQUALL. Introduction to Parallel Computing.
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PET Summer Institute Kim Kido | Univ. Hawaii Manoa
Thursday, July 27 • Intro to parallel computing • Intro to MHPCC • Intro to IBM SMP hardware • Intro to SQUALL
Introduction to Parallel Computing Useful for analyzing complex problems requiring massive amounts of computation that can be divided into independent tasks
Introduction to Parallel Computing • Use of multi-processors to complete a task • Classification systems • How processor exectutes instructions: SIMD, MIMD • Memory type (shared, distributed) • Number of processors • Symmetric/asymmetric
IBM SMP Hardware Overview • Symmetric Multi-Processors • 2+ identical processors connected to single shared memory • Workload efficiently balanced by moving tasks between processors
IBM SMP Hardware Overview • Only one processor can access memory at a time • Alternatives • NUMA • Asymmetric • Beowulf (computer-clustered)
Introduction to MHPCC • Air Force Research Laboratory Center managed by UH • Provides >10,000,000 hoursof computing time annually Maui High Performance Computing Center
Introduction to MHPCC • Engineering • Meteorology • Biology • Computer science Fluid pathlines about Predator B fuselage. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc
Introduction to SQUALL • 2-node, 32 processor IBM SP system • Available to users that don't meet DoD HPCMP access requirements • Unclassified • Non-sensitive • Designed for government, commercial, academic users • Used in institute to run sample programs
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