Practical Experience and Workforce Development on Sustained Petascale Computing Systems: A Workshop Exploring Scalable Multi-Physics Software for Multi-Thousand CPU Applications

David Ackerman, Iowa State University

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This two-week workshop is intended to provide a set of students the knowledge and access to create and run code capable of scaling efficiently to tens of thousands of processors. The students involved have knowledge of MPI programming, but not necessarily experience in wide scaling, nor access to sustained petascale computing systems. Following the workshop, students will be better prepared to efficiently apply HPC principles to large scale problems. They will be able to share this knowledge with others in their individual institutions as well as future careers in academia and industry. This workshop will leverage in-house FEM software on a set on multi-physics problems that the students will use subsequently for research. An additional outcome of the workshop will be results on optimizing and scaling of a community code to a set of large-scale simulations. Several of the participants will be women and students from HBSU’s.