A visualization course is also being planned.
Researchers often have programs that take an extremely long time to complete.
Parallel computing breaks up the program so it can be run on multiple processors so that completion time may be drastically reduced. This course will cover the techniques for parallel computing and the problems that need to be considered when writing parallel code. PVM is a public library of routines that can be installed on computers running the UNIX operating system to provide a mechanism for communication between processors. The library calls can be embedded in C or Fortran code to furnish the communication necessary for parallel processing. Participants should plan on attending 2 sessions and the hands-on open lab which will follow each session.