• 9:30 Presentation of the workshop, by Luis Núñez (CeCalCULA).
• 9:45 Introduction to the workshop, by Stefano Cozzini (INFM).
• 10:30 -12:00 Linux Overview and network issues (I) by Gilberto Díaz (CeCalCULA).

• 14:30 -16:00 Linux Overview and network issues (II) by Gilberto Díaz (CeCalCULA).
• 16:30 - 18:00 Practical session: Linux installation.
  

• 8:30 - 9:15 Introduction to cluster computing, by Stefano Cozzini (INFM).   
• 9:15-10:00 Cluster Installation Issues Gilberto Díaz (CeCalCULA).
• 10:30 - 12:00 Practical exercises: Cluster installation from scratch.

Afternoon:

• 14:30 - 16:00 Practical exercises: Cluster installation from scratch.
• 16:30 - 18:00 Practical exercises: Cluster installation from scratch.
  

• 8:30 - 10:00 Cluster Hardware: CPU (Stefano Cozzini).  
• 10:30 - 11:30 Cluster networks (Stefano Cozzini).  
• 11:30 - 12:00 Installation Tools(I): Sce package (Gilberto Díaz).

Afternoon:

• 14:30 - 16:00 Practical Exercises: Sce package
  • Installing Sce Cluster.
  • sce1.6
• 16:30 - 16:50 Installation Tools(II): Npaci-Rocks package (Gilberto Díaz).
• 16:50 - 18:00 Practical Exercises: Installing Npaci-Rocks.
  

• 8:30 - 10:00 Parallel Programming with MPI (I), by William Gropp (Argonne/University of Chicago).
• 10:30 - 12:00 Parallel Programming with MPI (II), by William Gropp (Argonne/University of Chicago).

Afternoon:

• 14:30 - 16:00 Practical exercises: MPI exercises.
• 16:30 - 18:00 Practical exercises: mpich.tar.gz
  

• 8:30 - 9:15 Installation Tool(III): Oscar Package (Gilberto Díaz).
• 9:15 - 10:00 Resource managers:
  • SGE/PBS (Juan Luis Chávez).
  • sge5.3p2.tgz
• 10:30 - 12:00 openMosix approach to Linux Clusters (Stefano Cozzini).  

Afternoon:

• 14:30 - 16:00 Practical exercises:
  • Install Oscar.  
  • Quick Start Install Oscar Guide.
  • oscar-2.3.tar.gz
• 16:30 - 18:00 Practical Exercises: install an openMosix cluster
  

• 8:30 - 10:00 Linux Cluster Management (Gilberto Díaz).
• 10:30 - 12:00 Cluster Monitoring Tools (Gilberto Díaz).

Afternoon:

• 14:30 - 16:00 Practical exercises.
• 16:30 - 18:00 Practical exercises.
  

• 8:30 - 9:30 Parallel File Systems: PVFS and GPFS by Luis Márquez (CeCalCULA).
• 9:30 - 10:00 Comparing performances among parallel File Systems by Stefano Cozzini.  
• 10:30 - 12:00 Cluster security by Juan Luis Chávez (CeCalCULA).
  

Afternoon:

• 14:30 - 16:00 Practical exercises: Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS)
• 16:30 - 18:00 Practical exercises: Ganglia
  

• 8:30 - 10:00 HPC Tools by Stefano Cozzini (INFM).  
• 10:30 - 12:00 Performance Analysis and optimization techniques by Stefano Cozzini (INFM).  

Afternoon:

• 14:30 - 16:00 Practical Exercises.   Exercise.txt
• 16:30 - 18:00 Short topical seminar.
  

• 8:30 - 10:00 Parallel Programming with OpenMP, by Kent Milfeld (TACC).
• 10:30 - 12:00 MultiThreading in IA-32 Architectures.

Afternoon:

• 14:30 - 16:00 Practical exercises.
• 16:30 - 18:00 Practical exercises.
  

• 8:30 - 9:15 Memory Performance in Xeon and AMD compute nodes by Kent Milfeld (TACC).
• 9:15 - 10:00 Using Batch Systems: PBS, LSF and LL by Kent Milfeld (TACC) .
• 10:30 - 12:00 A look at cluster interconnects by Kent Milfeld (TACC).
• 12:30 Cloosing Meeting...