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SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2012

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Supercomputing in Plain English

SESSION: Supercomputing in Plain English

EVENT TYPE: HPC Educator

TIME: 10:30AM - 12:00PM

Presenter(s):Henry J. Neeman

ROOM:255-A

ABSTRACT:
This session provides a broad overview of HPC. Topics include: what is supercomputing?; the fundamental issues of supercomputing (storage hierarchy, parallelism); hardware primer; introduction to the storage hierarchy; introduction to parallelism via an analogy (multiple people working on a jigsaw puzzle); Moore's Law; the motivation for using HPC. Prerequisite: basic computer literacy.

Chair/Presenter Details:

Henry J. Neeman - University of Oklahoma

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