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conference to assess their level of satisfaction with the program and garner any suggestions for
future like workshops.
ORNL
A case study of the NSTG RP at ORNL was presented to the international NOBUGS 2010
workshops in October in Gatlinburg. (http://www.nobugsconference.org/Conferences) This three
day workshop had over 50 attendees form three four different continents. The NSTG case study
was the capstone presentation officially ending the conference presentations.
Purdue
Purdue’s Kay Hunt, the TeraGrid Campus Champion Program lead, gave a number of
presentations including at Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium, EPSCoR Cyberinfrastructure
meeting in Washington, DC, EDUCAUSE in Anaheim, CA, Internet2 in Atlanta, GA, IEEE
CloudCom in Indianapolis, IN, and CI Days events at Univ. of Michigan, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Purdue. She planned and led campus champion BOFs at SC10 and
Internet2 meeting.
Purdue RP provided accounts on Steele and assisted with the training in Puerto Rico, in
December 2010.
10.5 RP Operations: Training
Jim Marsteller held the annual “Security 4 Lunch” on 08-Nov-2010 for all PSC staff and students.
The one hour presentation covered general information on security best practices including
material for PSC staff traveling to SC10. This year the staff was very interactive, asking a number
of security related questions. In fact, the VPN demo ran over the one hour allotted time.
SDSC
RP-funded training activities included hands-on workshops, training sessions via the Access Grid,
support of online and in-person tutorials. TeraGrid RP staff participated in both local site-specific
training as well as TG-wide training.
TACC
TACC and Cornell HPC staff members taught 6 workshops within the reporting period. Staff
members provided 36.5 hours of instruction to a total of 71 students.
VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
Staff members at the Center for Advanced Computing at Cornell University continue to maintain,
support, and develop new modules for the Ranger Virtual Workshop. Available through both the
TeraGrid User Portal and the TACC User Portal, the workshop provides users access to seventeen
training modules with seven new modules currently under development and three modules
scheduled for updates.
Available Modules
An Introduction to Linux (new)
An Introduction to C Programming (new)
Parallel Programming Concepts and High-Performance Computing
Ranger Environment
Message Passing Interface (MPI)
MPI Point-to-Point Communications (updated)
MPI Collective Communications
MPI One-Sided Communication
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