YSU hosts supercomputing workshop

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University is among 10 sites nationwide that will offer a free workshop next Thursday presented by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.

The workshop on OpenACC GPU programming will be in Meshel Hall and is open to all YSU students, faculty and staff. The workshop also is open to individuals outside YSU, but they will need to bring their own laptops. Only 25 spots are available. It begins at 11 a.m.

Registration deadline is Monday. To register, visit https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/346/session/557. To learn about the workshop, visit www.psc.edu/index.php/xsede-hpc-series or contact Feng “George” Yu, YSU assistant professor of computer science and information aervices, at fyu@ysu.edu.

Other sites offering the workshop are Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Michigan State University, University of Tennessee- Knoxville, University of Michigan, Stanford University, Louisiana State University, University of Houston, Clear Lake, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Lehigh University.

OpenACC is the accepted standard using compiler directives to allow quick development of GPU capable codes using standard languages and compilers.

XSEDE, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, is the most advanced and powerful collection of integrated digital resources and services in the world. It is a single virtual system that scientists and researchers can use to interactively share computing resources, data and expertise.