TITLE: HPCC Educational CD-ROM

INVESTIGATOR: David Bernholdt

DESCRIPTION:

NPAC and other PET partners have a sizable volume of educational
materials on various areas of HPCC which are suitable for asynchronous
use, by DoD researchers wishing to increase their familiarity with
various HPCC techniques and tools through self-study.  This project
represents the beginning of what will be an on-going effort to update
and collect this material and publish it on CD-ROM for convenient
distribution to the user community.  Content of the CD-ROMs is guided
by an editorial board including Jack Dongarra (Univ. of Tennessee),
Geoffrey Fox (Syracuse Univ.), Chuck Koelbel (Rice Univ.), Joe
Thompson (Mississippi State Univ.), and Louis Turcotte (CEWES MSRC).

The first CD-ROM, entitled "Overview of Computational Science: HPCC
Technology and Applications", was distributed at the 8th Annual DoD
HPC User's Group Conference.  It contains some ??? MB of material
which is easily accessed with any recent web browser. Contents of the
disc include:

   * CPS 615 -- Computational Science for Simulation Applications
          Lectures from CPS 615 and other courses in Syracuse University's
          Computational Science Curriculum. Includes 33 foil sets
          containing more than 1900 foils.

   * The complete on-line versions of two HPC books:
        o Parallel Computing Works! by Geoffrey C. Fox, Roy
          D. Williams, and Paul C. Messina
        o Designing and Building Parallel Programs: Concepts and Tools
          for Parallel Software Engineering by Ian Foster

   * Selected Technical Reports: 18 reports on general HPC issues from
     a variety of sources

   * Standards Documents: Message Passing Interface (MPI) versions 1.1
     and 2.0, High Performance Fortran (HPF) versions 1.1 and 2.0 

   * Computational Science Reference Pointers: More than 200 links to
     additional material available on the web at NPAC and other sites.

BENEFITS: [remainder as in original]