From: "Dr A.C. Marshall" Subject: New HPF Courseware To: hpc-centres@epcc.ed.ac.uk Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 11:02:21 +0100 (BST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit New HPF Courses +++++++++++++++ The Computing Services Department of the University of Liverpool has just finished updating their HPF Courses. These courses have been funded by JISC New Technologies Initiative and are available for downloading from URL: http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/HPFpage.html The previous incarnation of these courses received good reports - any feedback on the improved versions is strongly welcomed. The following text is taken from the above web page: -- There are two main Courses lasting 3 or 5 days and a shorter Seminar. The courses comprise OHP Slides, Course Notes, Student Exercises and Lecturers Guide. There is also a set of OHPs for a 40 minute seminar explaining the conversion Fortran 77 codes into HPF. =================================================================== o The 75 Minute Seminar "An Overview of HPF" is an introduction to High Performance Fortran for programmers who are familiar with a high level language such as C, Pascal or Fortran 77. Most of the major concepts within HPF are introduced and illustrated with examples. This course gives a good grounding in what HPF has to offer. o The Three Day Course "HPF for Fortran 90 Programmers" is designed to aid Fortran 90 in making the transition to HPF. Most of the major concepts within HPF are introduced, illustrated with examples and then reinforced by the use of programming exercises. Each day is divided into two 3 hour sessions: 1 hour lecture, 2 hours practical. The course therefore is divided into 6 x 1 hour sessions: Data Parallelism, Alignment and Distribution, Forall and Independent Loops, Procedures, Extrinsic Procedures and Vectorisation and HPF Library and HPF in the Future. o The Five Day Course "HPF for Programmers" is a complete guide to Fortran 90 / HPF. This course is for programmers who are familiar with a high level language such as C, Pascal or Fortran 77. The course begins by introducing all the features of Fortran 90 that are relevant to HPF; after this most of the major features of HPF are explained. There are exercises for both sections of the course. Each day is divided into two 3 hour sessions: 1 hour lecture, 2 hours practical. The course therefore is divided into 10 x 1 hour sessions: Overview, Objects and Expressions, Control Constructs, Arrays, Program Units and Interfaces, Array Arguments, Intrinsics and Modules, Data Parallelism, Alignment and Distribution, Forall and Independent Loops, Procedures and Extrinsics, HPF Library and HPF in the Future. o The Fortran 77 to Fortran 90 Conversion Seminar "From Fortran 77 to HPF" is a short seminar highlighting some of the issues involved with porting old Fortran 77 codes to HPF systems. The slides explain some simple conversion productions and give simplistic examples as illustrations. There are no Student Notes or Lecturers Guide with this package. -- These courses may be used for non-commercial gain. -- Dr AC Marshall | Cheese of the Week: CSD, University of Liverpool. L69 3BX | St Paulin. Tel: +44-151-794 3722 (Fax: 3759) | Mmmmm, St Paulin. http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/HPCpage.html http://www.liv.ac.uk/~adamm/HomePage.html