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Tools And Methods

Mondays 5:30-7:30pm

Day 1

Monday, Jan 23, 2012: Outline

Day 2

Monday, Jan 30, 2012: Outline

Day 3

Monday, Feb 6, 2012: Outline

Day 4

Monday, Feb 13, 2012: Shell scripting (Dave Yearke, Director, Science and Engineering Node Services)
Session 1
Session 2

Day 5

Monday, Feb 20, 2012: (Presenter David Yearke, Director, Science and Engineering Node Services)
(Presenter suddenly unwell.)

Day 6

Monday, Feb 27, 2012: Python Scripting (John Ringland)
Teams for today's activities with Python experts in 3 of them.
Files for Python overview
Python overview

Day 7

Monday, March 5, 2012
Unix Shell, Part 2 (Dave Yearke, Director, Science and Engineering Node Services)
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Discussion? Python vs Bourne shell scripting. Strengths/shortcomings of each.

Day 8

Monday March 26, 2012
Introduction to LaTeX (Presenter: Joaquin Carbonara)
LaTeX template
One LaTeX tutorial I find useful
Exercises: for Zurek group, for Matott group, for Xu group
Beamer
http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
https://authors.aps.org/revtex4/

Day 9

Monday April 2, 2012
Research groups meet with SOC.

Day 10

Monday April 9, 2012: T&M double-header

1. More about LaTeX (Presenter: Joaquin Carbonara)
**LaTeX template
**Quick reference guide to do math using LaTeX
**LaTeX macros
**Nice table alignment example
**Simple Beamer template
**Mathematica and LaTeX: use of TeXForm command
**Examples

2. Vector graphics (Presenter: John Ringland)

Day 11

Monday April 16, 2012
Intro. to UB CCR (Presenter: Shawn Matott)

Assignment

Each student should run the mpi (./build4mpi) and OpenMP (./build4omp) versions of the Julia Set application. Do this by requesting an interactive job that has 12 processors per node (ppn=12 in the qsub command). Keep track of the elapsed time reported by each version and compare with the one reported when you used the cpu (i.e. serial) version.

Hint: Adding the -q debug option to your qsub command will request access to the debug queue and reduce the time you have to wait for your interactive job to be scheduled.

Calculate the speedup for each version (speedup=elapsed_time_serial/elapsed_time_parallel) and e-mail your results to lsmatott@buffalo.edu. In your e-mail you should also include a discussion of the speedup - is it about what you would expect, given that the parellel versions use 12 processors vs. just one for the serial version? Why or why not?

Day 12

Monday April 23, 2012: Bibliographic management

Questions about last week presentations?
Easy intro to bibtex
JabRef

Day 13

Monday April 30, 2012

"Pot luck" of useful facts, techniques, tricks, software
Gnuplot examples (Eva),(JR comment 1,TeX integration)