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Introduction to Parallel Computing

Posted by timothy on from the stand-all-in-several-lines dept.

taped2thedesk writes "The University of Michigan Center for Advanced Computing recently conducted a introductory workshop on parallel (cluster and grid) computing systems. They posted all of the presentations and notes from their workshop online. I attended the workshop and found it very informative - code examples are in C and Fortran, but programmers of any language can understand the concepts they present." (Note: requires a program that can display powerpoint slides.)

17 comments

  1. It's been a few minutes... by Randolpho · · Score: 0

    Nobody has anything to say about paralell computing?

    Neither do I, really. It's interesting, but impractical when you're stuck with only one computer.

    I suppose I could say something along the lines of "imagine a beowulf cluster --".

    You know what... on second thought, I won't.

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    1. Re:It's been a few minutes... by gl4ss · · Score: 1

      Or you could rant about pp. Yeah, ppslides suck, can't view them here. And it's too hot too. And really, can't view them because there's no computer around, maybe google could convert them. Yeah and ranting with 9pad sucks equally as well.

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    2. Re:It's been a few minutes... by WasteOfAmmo · · Score: 1
      It is not that nobody has anything to say about parallel computing, it is that all posters were busy typing their comments at the same time; to be submitted at the same time resulting a complete conversation in a fraction of the time it would take to complete the same conversation in the normal loosly coupled sequential fashion.

      M.

  2. grid Mathematica by Ann+Coulter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    gridMathematica also runs in parallel for those who need to process extremely complicated mathematical forms.

  3. Program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    (Note: requires a program that can display powerpoint slides.)

    Such a program exists. It's called "PowerPoint".

    1. Re:Program by turgid · · Score: 1

      Yes, but you can also use OpenOffice.org, which is free as in beer.

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  4. I'm just wondering... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...could you legitimately use the term "parallel processing" if you are sucking on Jennifer Connelly's spectacular left breast while simultaneous fondling her equally wonderful right one?

  5. We did this too... by gnuadam · · Score: 4, Informative

    We did this as well at my university.

    Ours was a bit longer, and covered openMP as well (umich seems to only care about mpi :)). Link is here, and has both powerpoint slides and html for the microsoft-phobes.

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    1. Re:We did this too... by vrt3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      You say :wq, I say ZZ. Why can't we all just get along?

      I say :x.

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    2. Re:We did this too... by gnuadam · · Score: 1

      Obviously then you are to be despised.

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  6. It all makes sense, now. by pmz · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Repeat articles on Slashdot are due to a race condition!

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    1. Re:It all makes sense, now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Moderators, this is a joke, definitely not offtopic. A race condition is a parallel processing term. How I wish I had my mod points right now so I could mod it funny.

  7. Snide wannabe-funny remarks from Timmah. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "(Note: requires a program that can display powerpoint slides.)"

    Timothy, you are a fucking idiot.

  8. No, It Doesn't Need A Powerpoint Program by istartedi · · Score: 1

    It just needs to get cached by Google.

    I tried the exact URL, and Google hadn't cached it yet. However, typing "parallel computing" filetype:ppt into Google got a lot of hits, which may be mirrors of this material.

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    1. Re:No, It Doesn't Need A Powerpoint Program by iendedi · · Score: 2, Interesting

      So adding filetype:ppt gives you an HTML viewer for powerpoint via google? How nifty. learn something new everyday.

      Anyone try this technique with these presentations?

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    2. Re:No, It Doesn't Need A Powerpoint Program by weierstrass · · Score: 1
      I think Google produce a HTML version when they cache the document, which they offer you automatically, same as with pds. filetype just narrows down the search to files of a certain type.

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    3. Re:No, It Doesn't Need A Powerpoint Program by ReelOddeeo · · Score: 1

      OpenOffice 1.1 RC1 seemed to open the first Welcome presentation pretty well. (Haven't tried others yet.) A few font problems where some lines wrapped around in a way that was not obviously intended. Otherwise, everything looked right and was viewable.

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