This seminar series will meet one day per week. This will be a very applications-oriented course, showing you how to use the latest hardware and software. The course will be especially useful for students new to Penn State or new to High Performance Computing. Each of these seminars will simply serve to introduce you to the topic, in a 50 minute presentation, it is not possible to go into great depth. The webpages will contain more information and links to additional material.
Apprenticeships are often more effective than studying alone.
Some of the topics discussed in this course are hard to even find in a library, they are almost past around like folklore. Students will be expected to attend all lectures. There will be no homework. The grades in the seminar course will be based upon five reports you must submit sometime before the last day of classes. You can pick which five lectures you want to write the reports on.