Above the Fold
- In the past two months, science journalist Miles O'Brien has traveled to Thwaites Glacier, aka the Doomsday Glacier. Is reporting from there really worth reading? Here's a summary.
- Tech leaders: Physical sciences are the future.
ORCD Flyer
In a few recent ORCD presentations we have made, researchers have asked for a short summary of resources available from ORCD. We took this to heart and worked with our friend Claude to produce the ORCD flyer.
Here you can find all of our services, with links to more details on our web pages. If you get bored, you can also fold it up and fly it as a paper airplane.
Introduction to Parallel Programming Workshops
Parallel computing has been an important research topic in science and technology for decades. Thanks to the fast-developing field of deep learning in recent years, parallel computing is being used for more broad interests. In this class, concepts of parallel computing will be introduced.
Attendees will learn not only the basics of high-performance computing (HPC) clusters and GPU accelerators but also programming skills with OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, Pytorch, and Deepspeed. Examples and hands-on exercises will be provided in several programming languages including C, Fortran, and Python. These parallel programming skill sets are useful for researchers to accelerate their computer programs and helpful for students to be prepared for a career in information technology.
- Tuesday, April 7 (Day One)
- Parallel Programming with OpenMP: 10AM-12PM
- Distributed Computing with MPI: 2-4PM
- Wednesday, April 8 (Day Two)
- GPU Programming with CUDA: 10AM-12PM
- Distributed Deep Learning: 2-4PM
See the classes page on the ORCD website for more details and signup information.
What We're Reading
- If you are new to the area, you really need to drive down Route 1
- Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity, hangs in there ;in the latest test from LIGO.
- The use of the cursive style of writing has been declining for decades; many schools don't even teach it anymore. Recent results from MIT show that might be a mistake.
- Greynoise report - this guy is great
Introduction to Engaging Workshops
The MIT Office of Research Computing's Engaging Cluster is available to the MIT community for running computational workloads that don't run well on your own computer. This hands-on tutorial walks you through the basics of using Engaging for your research.
This course is being run regularly this Spring; the same material will be covered in each instance of the class.
- Wednesday, April 15: 2-4PM
- Tuesday, April 28: 2-4PM
- Tuesday, May 12: 1-3PM (sign ups open 30 days before)
- Thursday, May 28: 1-3PM (sign ups open 30 days before)
See the classes page on the ORCD website for more details and signup information.